John Fahey
John Fahey
John Aloysius Faheywas an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitive Guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 February 1939
CountryUnited States of America
John Fahey quotes about
Someone once said that war is God's way of teaching geography, but today, apparently war or even the threat of war cannot adequately teach geography,
I do not even laugh at this like others do because the relationship between entertainers and groupies is pathological.
Geographic illiteracy impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment, and isolates us from the world.
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.
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.
While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.
See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
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.
I also know that I am not a great technician.
From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.
As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
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.
Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.