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

#commercial #companies #demos #doing #forget

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

— John Fahey

#i #never #teachers #technique #them

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money. ↗

— John Fahey

#fortune #had #i #i do #money

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

#anything #father #him #i #knew

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

#book #bought #chord #country #did

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. ↗

— John Fahey

#opening #other #thing #unconscious #up

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight. ↗

— John Fahey

#folks #show #tonight #well

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

#anybody #began #guitar #hand #i

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

#death #first #good #guy #i

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

— John Fahey

#directly #drawing #emotions #hypnotic #i