John Frusciante

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

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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

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

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I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

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My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

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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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