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John Fahey

"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."

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"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."

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"So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why."
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"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."
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"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."
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