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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
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#Guitar
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#Point
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I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'
- Jeff Beck
#Autobiography
#Dead
#Dig
#Once
#Writing
I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.
- Jeff Beck
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#Me
#Mind
#Person
#Stop
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
#Beauty
#I Can
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#Rules
#Sometimes
It's easy to hurl abuse at those awards ceremonies like the Oscars and all that, which we tend to do. We tend to vent our anger at things which we feel are unjust or undeserving. But when you're the recipient, it makes it a lot different.
- Jeff Beck
#Anger
#Easy
#Feel
#Things
#Unjust
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
#Funny
#Genuine
#Guitar
#Magic
#Sound
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
#Fun
#Life
#My Life
#Needs
#People
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
#Coming
#Day
#Every Day
#They Say
#Time
I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.
- Jeff Beck
#Become
#Easy
#How
#Lie
#People
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
#Best
#Chaos
#Long
#Music
#Too Much
The right time to record is when you're not quite ahead of yourself.
- Jeff Beck
#Ahead
#Right Time
#Right
#Time
#Yourself
When they said there was gonna be about 100,000 people at Woodstock, and it went up to 200,000, I just blanked off and thought, 'I don't want to do this.' If they're filming it, it's too nerve-racking.
- Jeff Beck
#About
#Just
#People
#Up
#Want
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
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#Industrial
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It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'
- Jeff Beck
#Beginning
#Doing
#Me
#Recognition
#Wild
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
#Better
#Guitar
#Music
#Sound
#Wish
I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.
- Jeff Beck
#Certain
#Deal
#Humour
#People
#Who
I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.
- Jeff Beck
#Care
#Doing
#don't Care
#Rules
#Song
Mahavishnu's drummer Billy Cobham was the best I'd ever heard. Not loud, that's not the secret - powerful as hell when he wanted to be - but 90 per cent of the time, he was just dancing with the drums, you know? Just like a butterfly, all over them.
- Jeff Beck
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#Butterfly
#Drummer
#Hell
#Time
I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
- Jeff Beck
#Anyone
#Cherish
#Interfere
#Privacy
#Who
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
- Jeff Beck
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#High
#Plateau
#Plot
#Success
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