Boz Scaggs Quotes

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• My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
• I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
• My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
• 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…
• A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
• 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…
• I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new…
• I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
• I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
• 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…
• I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
• My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
• My first love was the sound of guitar.
• I was a guitar player first off.
• As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
• I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

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