91 Quotes by Jeff Beck

I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.

Nothing is more annoying than a great singer getting drowned out by a loud guitar.

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.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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