Jeff Beck

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when…

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

You stop anybody on any street, around the world, and they know who Eric Clapton is. They don't know who I am!

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy…

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to…

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— 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.…

— Jeff Beck

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing…

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

It's easy to hurl abuse at those awards ceremonies like the Oscars and all that, which we tend to do. We tend…

— Jeff Beck

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— Jeff Beck

When they said there was gonna be about 100,000 people at Woodstock, and it went up to 200,000, I just blanked off…

— Jeff Beck

The fun that I've had needs to be seen on the screen. I like the thought of a bunch of people laughing…

— Jeff Beck