John Fahey Quotes
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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It is always your next move.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
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The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
