Boz Scaggs Quotes
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.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
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.
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.
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.
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
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.
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.
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.
