John Fahey Quotes

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
John Fahey

Yourself, Become, Head

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.
John Fahey

Life, Hate, Human

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
John Fahey

Experience, Horrible, Worshipped

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.
John Fahey

Greatest, Important, Why

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.
John Fahey

Music, Early, Favorite

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.
John Fahey

Friends, Social, Looking

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
John Fahey

I also know that I am not a great technician.
John Fahey

Great, Technician

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.
John Fahey

Music, Trying, Guitar

I just want to be treated like an average guy.
John Fahey

Guy, Average, Treated

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.
John Fahey

Time, Forget, Thought

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
John Fahey

Trying, Teachers, Using

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
John Fahey

Money, Wish, Fame

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
John Fahey

Music, Father, Him

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.
John Fahey

Book, Writing, Country

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
John Fahey

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.
John Fahey

Show, Tonight, Folks

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
John Fahey

Love, Music, Guitar

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
John Fahey

Good, Death, Thought

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
John Fahey

Play, Put, Light

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 28, 1939

Died: February 22, 2001

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