John Fahey Quotes
"When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions."
- John Fahey
(Related: Emotions, Light, Play)
"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
(Related: Death, Thought, Blind, First)
"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
(Related: Love, Music, Guitar)
"Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight."
- John Fahey
"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
(Related: Country, Right, Songs, Writing)
"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money."
- John Fahey
(Related: Money, Fame, Fortune)
"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."
- John Fahey
(Related: Folk, Teachers, Trying)
"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
(Related: Time, Thought, Forget)
"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
(Related: Life, Errors, Hate)
"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."
- John Fahey
(Related: Unconscious)
"As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself."
- John Fahey
(Related: Fame)
"I just want to be treated like an average guy."
- John Fahey
(Related: Want)
"Being worshipped is a horrible experience."
- John Fahey
(Related: Experience, Being)
"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
(Related: Being, World)
"Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that."
- John Fahey
(Related: Music, People, Favorite)
"From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes."
- John Fahey
(Related: Friends, Perspective)
"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."
- John Fahey
(Related: Folk)
"I also know that I am not a great technician."
- John Fahey
"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
(Related: Music, Guitar, Listening, Trying)