T Boz Quotes & Sayings

I hate when people call me 'The Boz'. — Brian Bosworth

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

I'm not a jazz singer. — Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life. — 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. — Boz Scaggs

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. — Boz Scaggs

My first love was the sound of guitar. — Boz Scaggs

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. — Boz Scaggs

I was a guitar player first off. — Boz Scaggs

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. — Boz Scaggs

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. — Boz Scaggs

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me. — Boz Scaggs

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested. — Boz Scaggs

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

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. — Boz Scaggs

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one. — Boz Scaggs

I've been to two stadium gigs in my life. One was James Brown and the other was Pink Floyd. They both sounded the same. I couldn't tell the difference between James Brown and Pink Floyd. I've never liked stadiums. — Boz Burrell

You'd give up your brothers for a woman?" Brick asked incredulously and Shy's eyes moved to him.

"Abso-fucking-lutely."

"Seriously?" Boz asked.

"Not any woman," Shy nodded my way then invited "now ask again. — Kristen Ashley

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility. — Boz Scaggs

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. — Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. — Boz Scaggs

Boz waved his hands to draw the SPIs in around — Jill Marshall

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena. — Boz Scaggs

Isn't this what happens in the movies a lot? There's some old dude or woman who tells your fortune and is all, 'Oh, you're gonna die or make a boatload of money or meet a girl. Now give me all your cash'?" Boz yammered.

Mrs. Smith bristled. "I can tell your fortune right now without even consulting your palm."

"You can?"

"Yes. You are an idiot. You will always be an idiot. — Libba Bray

I tapped Boz on the shoulder and said, "Hey, gorgeous." His face twisted in complete surprise, turning to stare in blank incomprehension at mine. I winked at him, and whispered, "Boo. — Jim Butcher

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

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. — Brian Bosworth

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

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. — Boz Scaggs

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. — Boz Scaggs

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

I love all kinds of music. — Boz Scaggs

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

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. — Boz Scaggs