John Fahey

(8 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   I just want to be treated like an average guy.

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(6 votes)   Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

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(5 votes)   The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

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(12 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(6 votes)   I know many inferior guitarists who are very proud of the fact that they are as good as they are, when in fact they are only moderately good.

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(6 votes)   In the music I was composing I was trying to express my emotions, my so called negative emotions, which were depression, anger and so forth.

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

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   They are too focused on the audience rather than on their own emotions, or they are too focused on technique or perhaps on both.

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(5 votes)   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.

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

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(4 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   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.

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