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Boz Scaggs
American
Musician
About the author
My first love was the sound of guitar.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Love
#First
#Sound
#First love
#Guitar
I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Voice
I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#World
I'm not a jazz singer.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Jazz
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,
American
Musician
#Years
#Old
#Trying
#Electricity
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Parents
#Music
#Lovers
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Style
#Music
The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
I was a guitar player first off.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#First
#Guitar
This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#People
#Heart
#Being
#Cause
#Music
#Musicians
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,
American
Musician
#Music
There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Time
#Words
#Commitment
#Men
#Women
I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#American
#Music
#Women
There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Style
#Play
#Guitar
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Love
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,
American
Musician
#Time
#People
#Support
#Play
#Cause
#Music
#Musicians
#Community
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Jazz
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,
American
Musician
#Time
#Saying
#Artist
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,
American
Musician
#Jazz
#Voice
#Guitar
A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
I love all kinds of music.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Love
#Music
I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Love
#Freedom
#Flexibility
I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#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 the beginning.
Boz Scaggs,
American
Musician
#Artists
#Beginning