Top 100 Fahey Quotes
#1. Language is a code that I manipulate, to deny others' dominion over me" - Todd Brendan Fahey
Todd Brendan Fahey
#2. Jesper Llewellyn Fahey, that is enough!" Colm roared. (...)
Inej cocked her head to one side. "Jesper Llewellyn Fahey?"
"Shut up," said Jesper. "It's a family name."
Inej made a solemn bow. "Whatever you say, Llewellyn.
Leigh Bardugo
#3. Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
John Fahey
#4. (The Soviet space agency did not traditionally give cosmonauts steak and eggs before launch; it gave them a one-liter enema.) Fahey,
Mary Roach
#5. Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.
David Hepworth
#6. My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car.
Damien Fahey
#7. When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
John Fahey
#8. Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Siobhan Fahey
#9. Let go of the past.
Open to forever.
Hearts can heal.
Inside them is that which can never be broken.
Edward Fahey
#10. I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
Siobhan Fahey
#11. You have become what you are through countless lives and lessons. There is something you can offer others; if only working on your self-discipline, fighting your own baser urges.
Do that then. Do what is offered. Learn and grow as you can.
That in itself is service.
Edward Fahey
#12. As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.
John Fahey
#13. I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
Siobhan Fahey
#14. I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency ... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes.
Damien Fahey
#15. When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
Siobhan Fahey
#16. Sometimes everything inside us must be torn apart. Only then can we sort through to what is truly worth keeping.
Edward Fahey
#17. That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
Jeff Fahey
#18. I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
Siobhan Fahey
#19. Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
Siobhan Fahey
#20. Grief is a closing that leads to an opening just exactly when you really don't want one.
Edward Fahey
#21. Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.
Siobhan Fahey
#22. Something had gone horribly wrong at my birth, so my father would never have his little soldier, Mom would never have her home filled with tiny scampering joy, and we each clutched our guilt very privately.
Edward Fahey
#23. I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
Siobhan Fahey
#24. Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.
John Fahey
#25. Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'
Damien Fahey
#26. I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
John Fahey
#27. If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
Siobhan Fahey
#28. All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work.
Jeff Fahey
#29. I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
Siobhan Fahey
#30. Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
Damien Fahey
#31. Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
Siobhan Fahey
#32. It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
Siobhan Fahey
#33. I didn't come looking for an apology, Jesper. You have a weak spot. We all have weak spots."
"What's yours?"
"The company I keep," she said with a slight smile.
Leigh Bardugo
#34. As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
John Fahey
#35. 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.
John Fahey
#36. If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
Siobhan Fahey
#37. Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.
Edward Fahey
#38. Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.
Damien Fahey
#39. It was a calculated risk."
"It was cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best. Believe me, I know the difference.
Leigh Bardugo
#41. Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.
Damien Fahey
#42. It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes
Damien Fahey
#43. Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.
Jeff Fahey
#44. Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against ... Christ ...
Denis Fahey
#45. 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.
John Fahey
#46. Broken hearts show us we've grown out of one stage, by ripping us wide open for the next.
We're forced to choose what we do with all that pain: turn it against ourselves, aim it at someone else, or tap all that power and reach higher.
Edward Fahey
#48. It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
Siobhan Fahey
#49. Sometimes I wish I could feel more pain
so I could touch that much more beauty.
Edward Fahey
#50. It was a dense, moldering night, smelling of damp old basements and times best left unstirred.
Edward Fahey
#52. From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.
John Fahey
#53. There is something about guitars - maybe something magical - when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.
John Fahey
#54. I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
Siobhan Fahey
#55. Life is about trying to find our ways back to our one shared soul. When we're looking out at the stars, we're looking into ourselves.
Edward Fahey
#56. I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
Siobhan Fahey
#57. We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
Siobhan Fahey
#58. I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
Siobhan Fahey
#59. I also know that I am not a great technician.
John Fahey
#60. 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.
John Fahey
#61. Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
John Fahey
#62. I don't like this."
"To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much.
Leigh Bardugo
#63. I'd gone out into the world, intricately lacing distractions and busywork around the long-gnawing emptiness, only to find I'd merely embellished rather than hidden it.
Edward Fahey
#64. If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.
Jeff Fahey
#65. I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
Siobhan Fahey
#66. Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
Siobhan Fahey
#67. 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.
John Fahey
#68. I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
Siobhan Fahey
#69. I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.
Siobhan Fahey
#70. Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.
Siobhan Fahey
#71. How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
John Fahey
#72. Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
John Fahey
#74. The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
John Fahey
#75. I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
Siobhan Fahey
#76. 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.
John Fahey
#77. You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
Siobhan Fahey
#78. You're our chemist, Wylan," said Nina hopefully. "What do you think?"
Wylan shrugged. "Maybe. Not all poisons have an antidote."
Jesper snorted. "That's why we call him Wylan Van Sunshine.
Leigh Bardugo
#80. No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
Siobhan Fahey
#81. I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.
Siobhan Fahey
#82. I just want to be treated like an average guy.
John Fahey
#83. All Jews, however, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of the supernatural Life of Grace in society and will be an active ferment of Naturalism.
Denis Fahey
#84. I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.
Siobhan Fahey
#85. Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
John Fahey
#86. Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
"So?" said Kaz.
"Well, usually it's just half the city.
Leigh Bardugo
#87. Pull your shirt up over your mouth," he told Wylan.
"What?"
"Stop being dense. You're cuter when you're smart."
Wylan's cheeks went pink. He scowled and pulled his collar up.
Leigh Bardugo
#88. This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey
#89. Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are.
Edward Fahey
#90. I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
Siobhan Fahey
#91. More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.
John Fahey
#92. Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.
John Fahey
#93. You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world Because when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your own world
Siobhan Fahey
#94. I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
Siobhan Fahey
#95. Some guarded their children when they saw me, as though congenital defects and loneliness were contagious, even at a distance and through glass.
Edward Fahey
#96. The emptiness of one's days
can be seen as utterly hopeless
or as ripe with potential.
Edward Fahey
#97. They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.
Siobhan Fahey
#98. If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand (Stay) Stay with me
Siobhan Fahey
#99. I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
Siobhan Fahey
#100. The real forces behind Bolshevism is Russia are Jewish forces, and Bolshevism is really an instrument in the hands of the Jews for the establishment of their future Messianic kingdom.
Denis Fahey
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