Boz Scaggs Quotes

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

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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.

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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.

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

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• I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn’t interested.

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• I love all kinds of music.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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• My first love was the sound of guitar.

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• I would say that I’m finding my voice in more ways than one.

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• I was a guitar player first off.

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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.

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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.

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• I’m not a jazz singer.

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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.

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• I’m easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

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• My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

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Boz Scaggs (27)

Birth:	8th June, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

Boz Scaggs was born in Canton, Ohio. He is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1960s as a guitarist and sometime lead singer with the Steve Miller Band, and in the 1970s with several solo Top 20 hit singles in the United States, including the well-known hits "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle" from the critically acclaimed album Silk Degrees, which peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200. Scaggs continues to write, record music, and tour.

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