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