Boz Scaggs quotes

My first love was the sound of guitar. (Boz Scaggs)
I was a guitar player first off. View quote
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There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be. View quote
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As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. View quote
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I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. View quote
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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. View quote
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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. View quote
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I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life. View quote
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I'm not a jazz singer. View quote
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I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena. View quote
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The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer. (Boz Scaggs)
I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested. View quote
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I love all kinds of music. View quote
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As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. View quote
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I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me. View quote
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I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility. View quote
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My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. View quote
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A lot of what I have always done is do other singers. View quote
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I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice. View quote
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I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning. View quote
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I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music. (Boz Scaggs)
I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one. View quote
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From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are. View quote
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I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything. View quote
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Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around. View quote
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