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

Boz Scaggs

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Boz Scaggs
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 8
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Canton
Ohio
William Royce Scaggs
Listened
Complexes
Complex
Became
Style
Learned
Stole
Together
Borrowed
Music
Songwriters

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I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
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There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
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I love all kinds of music.
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A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
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As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
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I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
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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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I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
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