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

Jeff Beck

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Jeff Beck
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 24
Composer
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London
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Geoffrey Arnold Beck
Geoffery Arnold Jeff Beck
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I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.
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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.
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As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters.
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Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.
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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.
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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.
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If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.
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I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.
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I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.
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After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.
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... 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.
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Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.
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I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
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If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.
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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.
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If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
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