QUOTES by John Fahey
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"While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player."
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"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."
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"We're trying to find ways for our kids to give back to the community, give back to the school, ... We're also really working on giving them the work they can take with them way beyond high school."
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"In fact, I would go so far as to say that I am playing emotions and expressing them in a coherent public language called music."
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"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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"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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"Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here."
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"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."
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"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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"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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"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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"So I was really composing for full orchestra and of course I didn't know enough chords or harmonies yet but I came up with some interesting stuff."
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"As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent."
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"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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"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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"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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