The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
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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.John Fahey
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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Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that.
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Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
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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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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.
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