Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that.
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From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.John Fahey
So when people ask me how good I am, I usually cop to being brilliant, even better than that, but short of genius.
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
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
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.
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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.
John Fahey
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