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You can say things with music that there’s no way to say with words. The meaning is much more than anyone can say with words. The reason for that is that music plays directly to our subconscious. We feel what we feel when we listen to music because it’s playing with our subconscious. Billboards that we see when we drive around play with our subconscious, the media plays with our subconscious, and commercials play with our subconscious. But those things fuck with your subconscious, those things hurt your subconscious, and those things confuse your subconscious. Music puts your subconscious back in order, music gives your subconscious some sort of semblance of order and some sort of feeling of beauty, and that’s why we feel what we feel when we listen to it. Especially somebody who’s had a fucked-up life, we need that – we need to feel like everything makes sense. At the end of the day when I sit down after doing everything that I need to do for the day, and I sit there in front of my speakers and I listen to some beautiful music, it puts everything in place, and I feel like the whole world is perfect. That is not stupid. That is the most important part of my day. It doesn’t matter what I’ve accomplished that day, or shit, how much money I’ve made that day, or anything like that doesn’t mean anything. What matters is at the end of the day where I can sit there, put on a Velvet Underground record, and the world is perfect, nothing is wrong with it. Everything is exactly the way it is supposed to be. That’s how I feel when I hear music, and that’s how it’s been my whole life. John Frusciante
