The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

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.

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

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

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.

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

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

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.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

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.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

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.

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.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.