John Fahey quotes

John Fahey quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

#Light Quotes #Play Quotes #Drawing Quotes
“There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.”
-- John Fahey

Source : John Fahey (2000). “How bluegrass music destroyed my life: stories”, Drag City

#Past Quotes #Guitar Quotes #Mysterious Quotes
“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

#Guitar Quotes #Listening Quotes #Trying Quotes
“The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.”
-- John Fahey

#Opening Up Quotes #Opening Quotes #Unconscious Quotes
“I just want to be treated like an average guy.”
-- John Fahey

#Average Quotes #Guy Quotes #Want Quotes
“How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.”
-- John Fahey

#Folks Quotes #Suburbs Quotes #Knows Quotes
“From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.”
-- John Fahey

#Perspective Quotes #Social Quotes
“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

#Guitar Quotes #Important Quotes #World Quotes
“I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.”
-- John Fahey

#Teacher Quotes #Trying Quotes #Technique Quotes
“Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.”
-- John Fahey

#Tonight Quotes #Shows Quotes #Folks Quotes
“As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.”
-- John Fahey

#Fame Quotes #Full Of Yourself Quotes
“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

#Country Quotes #Song Quotes #Book Quotes
“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

#Guitar Quotes #Hands Quotes #Kind Quotes
“Being worshipped is a horrible experience.”
-- John Fahey

#Worship Quotes #Horrible Quotes #Horrible Experience Quotes
“I also know that I am not a great technician.”
-- John Fahey

#Technicians Quotes #Knows Quotes
“More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.”
-- John Fahey

#Meaningful Quotes #Real Quotes #Islands Quotes
“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

#Records Quotes #Forget Quotes #Wasting My Time Quotes
“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

#Father Quotes #Piano Quotes #Stuff Quotes
“Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.”
-- John Fahey

#People Quotes #Kind Quotes #My Favorite Quotes

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