Jeff Beck Quotes

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

Music is a living art. You re-create it.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.