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" But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet. "

John Frusciante

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" I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine. "

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" I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. "

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" Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things. "

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" I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake. "

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" Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away. "

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" I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. "

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" Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist. "

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" I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it. "

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" As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me. "

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" For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day. "

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" My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now. "

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" I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv. "

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" The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. "

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" And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something. "

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" People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic. "

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" And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. "

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" In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy. "

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John Frusciante

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John Frusciante

" For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time. "

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