Boz Scaggs Quotes

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
Boz Scaggs

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.
Boz Scaggs

Play, Guitar, Difficult

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
Boz Scaggs

Love, Far, Used

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.
Boz Scaggs

Music, Time, Play

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
Boz Scaggs

Place, Singer, Jazz

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
Boz Scaggs

Away, Able, Step

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.
Boz Scaggs

Time, Saying, After

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.
Boz Scaggs

Rock, Guitar, Same

I love all kinds of music.
Boz Scaggs

Love, Music, Kinds

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
Boz Scaggs

Love, Freedom, Working

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
Boz Scaggs

Life, Step, Musical

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.
Boz Scaggs

Made, Same, Said

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

Music, Women, American

I was a guitar player first off.
Boz Scaggs

Guitar, Off, Player

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
Boz Scaggs

Voice, Ways, Finding

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
Boz Scaggs

Around, Distracted, Easily

I'm not a jazz singer.
Boz Scaggs

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.
Boz Scaggs

Through, Trying, Old

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
Boz Scaggs

Heard, Influences, Household

My first love was the sound of guitar.
Boz Scaggs

Love, Guitar, Sound

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
Boz Scaggs

Music, Parents, Around

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Boz Scaggs

Music, Together, Learned

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.
Boz Scaggs

Music, Live, Black

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
Boz Scaggs

Short, Become, Singer

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
Boz Scaggs

Used, Radio, Keeps

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Nationality: American

Born: June 8, 1944

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