Jeff Beck Quotes

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings.

Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale - he was too loud.

My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul.

In my opinion, the P-90 is the best pickup for slide - it has the right overtones.

Using double coil pickups kills a lot of the guitar tone - you lose the acoustic mechanics. With my single-coils driven through the Marshalls and overdrive, it sounds massive.

It is the universe where all rock players live- we all use distortion, overdrive, gain and saturation. I call it 'fuzz.'

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his great Sun records with Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.