Boz Scaggs Quotes

#1. It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.

Matt Passmore

#2. I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

Bill Parcells

#3. My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. I was a guitar player first off.

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#9. I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

James Patterson

#10. Obviously, I'm quite young and I haven't really thought about what films I'd like to go into yet. I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome, and really fun. I want to be as diverse as possible.

Charlie Rowe

#11. I'm not a jazz singer.

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

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#13. My sword's yours, then... but don't go looking for me to bend the knee and m'lord you every time you take a shit. I'm no man's toady.

George R R Martin

#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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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#17. I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

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#18. 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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#19. I love all kinds of music.

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

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#21. I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

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

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#23. 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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#24. The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants.

George Washington

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

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#26. My first love was the sound of guitar.

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

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#28. My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

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#29. 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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#30. I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

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#31. And time tears us up and then it tries to fix us.

Evan Kuhlman

#32. I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

Brent Scowcroft

#33. I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

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#34. 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.

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#35. The really unusual day would be one where nothing unusual happens.

Persi Diaconis

#36. You write about what you love and you write about things you're trying to make sense of.

Bruce Springsteen

#37. I moaned and he moaned and my mind and soul and body stood on the edge of pure ecstasy.

Katie McGarry

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

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