25 Jeff Beck Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jeff Beck

British Musician

Born: Jun 24, 1944

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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

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

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I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval. Jeff Beck

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Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn't do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos - Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn't a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules. Jeff Beck

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

If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner. Jeff Beck

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Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it? Jeff Beck

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I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues. Jeff Beck

Love Myself Guitarist Though Putting Up Committed Blues Even Playing

I loved Motown. I loved the musicality and the sound. Jeff Beck

Musicality Sound Motown Loved

If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really. Jeff Beck

People Song Matters Guess Like Makes Then Really

When you get guys coming up to you in clubs or restaurants or somewhere, and they say how much they've enjoyed your playing on records, then that pays off dividends every day; every time they say it, you think, 'I'm glad I did that.' Jeff Beck

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Cliff Gallup is one of my heroes; I'd dearly love to meet him. Jeff Beck

Love Heroes Meet Him Cliff Dearly

The fun that I've had needs to be seen on the screen. I like the thought of a bunch of people laughing at what I laughed at - because my life is surreal, completely wacko. Jeff Beck

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I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie. Jeff Beck

Lie People Become Easy How Very Conscious

The right time to record is when you're not quite ahead of yourself. Jeff Beck

Time You Yourself Right Time Record Quite Right

I thought there couldn't be a better backdrop for some kind of powerful music than a big orchestra. My wish to hear how a guitar would sound in front of an orchestra has always been there. Jeff Beck

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I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster. Jeff Beck

Man Steel Very Poor Pedal

The Les Paul was more challenging because of the weight of it, but the tone was there that the Fender will never have and vice versa. So you have to make a decision as to what you're going to have as your main instrument. After seeing Hendrix, I thought, 'I'll stick with the 'Strat.' Jeff Beck

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I couldn't not play a Les Paul guitar. Les always used to point to my Strat and say, 'Why do you have that piece of crap around your neck?' I'd say, 'Yours are too heavy. I had to drill holes in it.' Jeff Beck

The only way you can get Scotty Moore's tone is with a big hollowbody guitar. Jeff Beck

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