Jeff Beck Quotes

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

With every album that I do, I try to feature a new instrument or sound.

I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven't heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new.

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Music should always be an adventure.

My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

I feel like David Byrne is a great example of someone who is always in the 'now' moment of music and finding reasons to be excited and always seeing what's special about it.