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

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.
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Guitar Player Style
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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Artist Retrospect String
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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Artist Beginning Include Records Thinking
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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Conceptional Hills Thinking Voice
I was a guitar player first off.
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Firsts Guitar Player
A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
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Always Done Singers
I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn’t interested.
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Able Feels Steps
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
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Heard Household Influence
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
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Piano Player Used
There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
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Country People Radio Used
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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Arena Jazz Singers
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
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Collector Lovers Music Parents
I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
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Instinct Musical Steps
The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
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Answers Singers Thinking
I’m easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
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Country Distracted Easily People World
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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Rays Trying Years

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

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