Zitat des Tages von 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.
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
I love all kinds of music.
I was a guitar player first off.
I'm not a jazz singer.
I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
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.
I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
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.
My first love was the sound of guitar.
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.
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 feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
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.
There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.