John Fahey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.”

“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.”

“Being worshipped is a horrible experience.”

“How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.”

“I just want to be treated like an average guy.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”