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

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

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

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
Boz Scaggs

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
Boz Scaggs

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

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

I love all kinds of music.
Boz Scaggs

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


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

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

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

I was a guitar player first off.
Boz Scaggs

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
Boz Scaggs

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
Boz Scaggs

I'm not a jazz singer.
Boz Scaggs

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

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
Boz Scaggs

My first love was the sound of guitar.
Boz Scaggs