John Fahey Trying Quotations

We're trying to find ways for our kids to give back to the community, give back to the school, ... We're also really working on giving them the work they can take with them way beyond high school.

Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that.

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.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

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.