Best quotes by Jeff Beck on Guitar

Checkout quotes by Jeff Beck on Guitar

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

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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.'

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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