Jeff Beck Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

... 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.

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

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

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?

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

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

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.

If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

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

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

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.

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them.

I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere.

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me, ' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went.