John Fahey Quotes

Early Bluegrass Is My Favorite Kind Of Music, Not To Many People Know That.

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.

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.

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.

I Also Know That I Am Not A Great Technician.

Being Worshipped Is A Horrible Experience.

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.

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.

As For Fame, It Can Go To Your Head And You Can Become Full Of Yourself.

Well Folks, That's About It For The Show Tonight.

I Was Using Them As Teachers For Technique But I Was Never Trying To Be A Folk.

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.