Jeff Beck Quotes

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• Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

  Jeff Beck

  Sometimes, Organize, Turns

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Mar 24, 2017

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• I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

  Jeff Beck

  Guitar, Years, People

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Jul 27, 2010

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• My first wife said, 'It's either that
  guitar or me,' you know -- and I give
  you three guesses which one went.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Guitar, Giving

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Mar 01, 2017

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• Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

  Jeff Beck

  Mcdonalds, Music Is, Disposable

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• I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is much more important than making mistakes, so be prepared to look like a chump. If you become too guarded and too processed, the music loses its spontaneity and gut feeling

  Jeff Beck

  Song, Jobs, Mistake

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• After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

  Jeff Beck

  Funny, Music, Home

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• That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Guitar, Woods

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• I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.

  Jeff Beck

  Rocks, Long, Missing

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Apr 26, 2017

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• As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters.

  Jeff Beck

  Long, Matter, Originals

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• I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

  Jeff Beck

  Long, Feelings, Elements

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• The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Emotion, Notes

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• I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

  Jeff Beck

  Couple, Heart, Play

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• I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Play, Way

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• I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Song, Jobs

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• ... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

  Jeff Beck

  Player, Django, Guitar

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• Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

  Jeff Beck

  Mom, Guitar, Two

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• I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.

  Jeff Beck

  Guitar, Differences, Woods

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• It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

  Jeff Beck

  People, Amy, Want

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• A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

  Jeff Beck

  Soul, Sound, Spirit

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Apr 24, 2017

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• Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.

  Jeff Beck

  Thinking, Guitar, Upset

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• I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

  Jeff Beck

  Trying, Woe, Privacy

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Apr 13, 2017

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• I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

  Jeff Beck

  Guitar, Magic, Trying

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• If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.

  Jeff Beck

  Sound, Machines, Exciting

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• If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

  Jeff Beck

  Plot, Success Or Failure, Ifs

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• Yes, it's in my left ear. It's excruciating... I mean, it's the worst thing 'cause it's not... It never... It does go away - it's not true to say that it doesn't but, uhh... It doesn't... The doctors say it won't... It isn't actually going away - you've just gotta suppress... They try to come to terms with what it actually... Why some people fear it - that's the psychology behind it. They know it's there but why is it such a horrible sound? Well, you can say why is a guy scratching at a window with his nails such a horrible sound - I couldn't put up with that! This is worse!

  Jeff Beck

  Mean, Doctors, People

  Interview with Douglas J. Noble, www.djnoble.demon.co.uk. 1994.

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