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My songwriting and my style be...

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

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I'm still trying to re-create ...

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'm not a jazz singer....

I'm not a jazz singer.

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It's been done in all the righ...

It's been done in all the right spirit. The people who put this thing together did it for all the right reasons.

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Lowdown....

Lowdown.

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A lot of what I have always do...

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

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And if it's not there - if tha...

And if it's not there - if that little melody is not in my head, or if I just don't really feel like picking up the guitar - I just don't do it.

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As a guitar player, you can gr...

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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As far as other instrumentalis...

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 F...

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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I am not a jazz singer. I woul...

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 feel fortunate that I was ab...

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....

I love all kinds of music.

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Fade Into Light...

Fade Into Light

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The short answer is, yes, I th...

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

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There is not a lot that keeps ...

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

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Quite frankly, I've always lis...

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.

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I felt that, in retrospect, th...

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 30 quotes

From the time I moved to San F...

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 30 quotes

I listened to classical guitar...

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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