Jeff Beck Quotes

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I just sing. I sing whatever I can.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

You want to be playing off the cuff sometimes to take chances and make something happen.

If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything.

My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It's like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don't have to wait for the end.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

The beauty of stand-up is that it's very flexible, it's very malleable and immediate. Whatever is in your head that day you can verbalise in some way that night. It's the medium that suits me best.

You shouldn't think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, 'I can play this, and I can show you that.'

I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

Jazz music is the power of now.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.