49 Quotes by 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.

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.

So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer 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.

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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They are missing a component that is very important and should be one of the skill sets for the 21st century that every kid has when they graduate from high school.

They are too focused on the audience rather than on their own emotions, or they are too focused on technique or perhaps on both.

I know many inferior guitarists who are very proud of the fact that they are as good as they are, when in fact they are only moderately good.