Best 14 quotes of John Fahey on MyQuotes

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

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

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.

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

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

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.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

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.

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

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.

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.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

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