Fahey Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions. — John Fahey

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. — Siobhan Fahey

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love. — Siobhan Fahey

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet. — Siobhan Fahey

Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs. — Damien Fahey

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

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

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

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

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. — John Fahey

I consider the Stooges to be pop music. — Siobhan Fahey

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. — Siobhan Fahey

Jes, I've thought about this-"
"Thought of me? Late at night? What was I wearing?"
"I've thought about your powers," Wylan said, cheeks flushing pinker. — Leigh Bardugo

Happiness is the wish to be what you are."(Erasmus) — Jean Ciborowski Fahey

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike. — Siobhan Fahey

Some folks live lives that are complete and total shit. But that's all they know, so it's home for them. They can't see things being any different, so don't mess with what they got going. Pile it on; they can take it.
What they can't see, because they don't want to, is that things could get better; they could step out of it. It wouldn't take much more than just seeing they can.
But that's scary, 'cause it's so unreliable. They can always count on shit coming at them; but is hope always gonna be there when they need it? — Edward Fahey

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

I keep being told that my writing is getting better and better. - Now, at first I am thrilled by that, but then I think, Isn't everybody's? Do some authors grow cozy with their own style, and stay there?
I think of writing fiction as an art form. As such, it's a constant exploration of new and developing ideas. If any of my books were much like my others, I don't think I'd even bother to write them. — Edward Fahey

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex. — Siobhan Fahey

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

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

There comes a hush between darkness and day.
Like expectation of a caress.
A murmur of silence.
Tree crests peeked down at Paulette through slowly lifting fog. Bark felt around for its texture again. Morning gathered and drifted through mere hints; through vague hopeful nuances of 'Just maybe'.
- From "The Gardens of Ailana" handbook for healers & mystics — Edward Fahey

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop. — Siobhan Fahey

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

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

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

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

The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov ... A few months ago he wrote in the French publication, L Vie Ouvriere ... that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the existing order in the great Democracies. — Denis Fahey

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

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

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own. — Siobhan Fahey

Where do think the money went?" he repeated.
"Guns?" asked Jesper.
"Ships?" queried Inej.
"Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
"Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.
He shrugged. "They all seem like practical choices. — Leigh Bardugo

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

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

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

I don't like this."
"To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much. — Leigh Bardugo

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

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will. — Siobhan Fahey

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas. — Siobhan Fahey

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

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

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

My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car. — Damien Fahey

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

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes — Damien Fahey

Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage. — Damien Fahey

As so often happens in my strange writing process, after weeks of distraction; of not thinking about the book at all; yesterday I started writing before the sun was up, or coffee was made. Whipped out a whole chapter of probably six or seven separate scenes in less than two hours. Now today, the whole story has slipped into a deeper level of knowing and connections than has (as far as I know, anyway) ever really been written about before. This is much as my experience was with Ailana, when I kept slipping into deeper and deeper gears. Bringing forth insights I myself had never learned or suspected. — Edward Fahey

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know. — John Fahey

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

Language is a code that I manipulate, to deny others' dominion over me" - Todd Brendan Fahey — Todd Brendan Fahey

The diaphanous gown of the Milky Way shifted through scattered stars and all wishes made upon them. It gathered its silky folds as her eyes adjusted to darkness through spasms of beauty and joy.
Florescent mists wandered the shadows, brushing trees softly with moon glow. — Edward Fahey

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person. — Siobhan Fahey

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type. — Siobhan Fahey

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

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

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money. — John Fahey

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

(The Soviet space agency did not traditionally give cosmonauts steak and eggs before launch; it gave them a one-liter enema.) Fahey, — Mary Roach

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect. — Siobhan Fahey

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants. — Jeff Fahey

My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone. — Damien Fahey

Sometimes I wish I could feel more pain
so I could touch that much more beauty. — Edward Fahey

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

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that? — Siobhan Fahey

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

In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America. — Denis Fahey

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

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

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

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses. — Jeff Fahey

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls. — Siobhan Fahey

Grief is a closing that leads to an opening just exactly when you really don't want one. — Edward Fahey

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears. — Siobhan Fahey

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

On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In the Press, and diplomatic circles, it was difficult to find non-Jews ... In France many believe, even amongst the Communists, that, thanks to the present anti-Jewish purge ... Russia is no longer Israel's chosen land ... Those who think that are making a mistake. — Denis Fahey

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

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

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

It is so hard to think 'was' about your mom. — Edward Fahey

I also know that I am not a great technician. — John Fahey

I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them. — Jeff Fahey

Let go of the past.
Open to forever.
Hearts can heal.
Inside them is that which can never be broken. — Edward Fahey

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight. — John Fahey

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

Love your freeloaders, and they'll love you back. Some of them will like what you do so much that they'll become paying customers. Some will even become whales. Some of them will invite their friends to come and play - which has a direct financial upside for you, because it reduces your acquisition cost. Some will play with their friends in the game, which boosts your retention and makes those friends more likely to keep playing and become paying customers. Some will spread the word about how fun your game is. They'll all bring you value in their own way. Of course, that doesn't — Rob Fahey

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread. — Damien Fahey

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style. — Madison Smartt Bell

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

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

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

Being a woman is really crap. — Siobhan Fahey

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

Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.' — Damien Fahey

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

You're the one getting ready to bolt, Jesper. You just want me to run with you so you don't have to feel so bad about it. For all your love of a fight, you're always the first to talk about running for cover."
"I made a mistake. I let my bad get the best of my good, but for Saints' sake, Kaz, how long are you going to make me pay for a little forgiveness? [...] How many times have I had your back in a fight? How many times have I gotten it right? Doesn't that count for anything?" Jesper threw up his hands. "I can't win with you. No one can. — Leigh Bardugo

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman. — Siobhan Fahey

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking. — Siobhan Fahey