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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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
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.
John Fahey
As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious that there is no such thing as talent.
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.
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Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
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Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that.
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