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I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

~Jeff Beck

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I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

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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 because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

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I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.

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

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If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: June 24th, 1944

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