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All Quotes by author - Boz Scaggs
" A lot of what I have always done is do other singers. "
Other
Done
Singers
" 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. "
Easy
You
Style
" As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. "
Like
Piano
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. "
Support
Community
Music
" I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena. "
I Am
Singer
Place
" I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested. "
Interested
I Feel
Feel
" 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. "
Artist
Time
Late
" 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. "
Voice
Rock
Guitar
" I love all kinds of music. "
I Love
Love
Music
" I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility. "
Love
Freedom
Flexibility
" I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me. "
Things
World
Other
" I'm not a jazz singer. "
Jazz Singer
Jazz
Singer
" 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. "
Me
Electricity
Trying
" I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life. "
Life
My Life
Step
" 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. "
Think
Myself
Beginning
" 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. "
American
Doing
Music
" I was a guitar player first off. "
Off
Guitar
Player
" I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one. "
Than
Ways
Say
" My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. "
Household
Things
Influences
" My first love was the sound of guitar. "
Love
First
First Love
" My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. "
Music
Were
Parents
" My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. "
Style
Music
More
" 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. "
Side
Radio
Music
" There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be. "
Keeps
Glued
Lot
" The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer. "
Yes
Better
Short
" 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. "
Musicians
Music
Heart
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