Boz Scaggs Quotes

I'm not a jazz singer.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so accustomed to hearing me sing musical theater.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.

Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means.

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.

I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.