"As a guitar player, you can gravitate to……" — 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."
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Boz Scaggs
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27 Quotes by Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs has 27 quotes on this site.
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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
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I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
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My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
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I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits…
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A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
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From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a…
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I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All…
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I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
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I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same…
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I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using…
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I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
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I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
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More Blues Quotes
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one of 667 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
— Count Basie
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Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
— Christina Aguilera
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
— Luke Bryan
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to…
— Gary Allan
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
— Nick Cave
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music,…
— Nick Cave
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth.…
— Ray Charles
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my…
— Eric Clapton
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