41 Quotes by Boz Scaggs

So I think after taking a hiatus for some years and coming back, I'm finding my voice and my place again in the world of music around me.

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

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.

I would say that I’m finding my voice in more ways than one.

I’m not a jazz singer.

I’m easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

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’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.

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.