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You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
