49 Quotes by John Fahey

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.

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.

Geographic illiteracy impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment, and isolates us from the world.

I do not even laugh at this like others do because the relationship between entertainers and groupies is pathological.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

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.

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.

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.