Jeff Beck Quotes

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

… in history, so many circumstances of a small and accidental nature are relevant, that no broad and simple uniformities are possible.

Football works in mysterious ways.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

There is always room for coincidence.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

Is anything accidental?

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.