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John Fahey

"As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself."

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"As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself."

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"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it."

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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."

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"Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy."

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"I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law."

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"I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet."

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"I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in."

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"It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it."

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"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."

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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."

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"So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing."

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"When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions."
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"Being worshipped is a horrible experience."
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