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Top 15 John Fahey Quotes (2024 Update)

John Fahey Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

John Fahey Quote: “I also know that I am not a great technician.”

2. “I also know that I am not a great technician.”

John Fahey Quote: “Well folks, that’s about it for the show tonight.”

3. “Well folks, that’s about it for the show tonight.”

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

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

John Fahey Quote: “How can I be a folk? I’m from the suburbs you know.”

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

John Fahey Quote: “There is something about guitars – maybe something magical – when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.”

6. “There is something about guitars – maybe something magical – when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.”

John Fahey Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “Being worshipped is a horrible experience.”

8. “Being worshipped is a horrible experience.”

John Fahey Quote: “When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.”

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

John Fahey Quote: “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.”

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

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

John Fahey Quote: “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.”

12. “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 Quote: “From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.”

13. “From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.”

John Fahey Quote: “Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.”

14. “Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.”

John Fahey Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Quote: “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.”

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

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

John Fahey Quote: “The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.”

18. “The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.”

John Fahey Quote: “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.”

19. “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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