Jeff Beck Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Hysteria, East

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• I never really felt at home with that - the headbands, the roses, the feet, the peace sign, all that bollocks. That wasn't me at all; I felt like a fish totally out of water during the mid-'60s thing.

  Jeff Beck

  Home, Feet, Water

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

  Jeff Beck

  Tunes, Albums, Ifs

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

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Parent, England

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• 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.

  Jeff Beck

  Running, Writing, Guitar

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

  Jeff Beck

  Careers, Two, People

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• 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.

  Jeff Beck

  Average, The End Of The Day, Being Played

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

  Jeff Beck

  Emotional, Giving, Mind

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• I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

  Jeff Beck

  Locks, Radio, Littles

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

  Jeff Beck

  Pressure, Feels, No Pressure

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

  Jeff Beck

  Two, Numbers, Singing

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• 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.

  Jeff Beck

  Ducks, Want, London

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