Boz Scaggs Quotes

To listen to my first record, it doesn't sound like me.

So yeah, it's nothing that I'm doing on purpose, I just think that the more records, the more songs that I write, the more records that I make, you're obviously going to fall into a specific style and thank God it's a style that people are into.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was and what I wanted.

I just think that there is something that keeps us together, to keep doing what we're doing. I can't really put my finger on it other than each record is like a little snapshot of my life at that particular moment, the way I play, the way I sound, the way I wrote, the way I sing, I can hear it.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.

It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes.

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

We've always done what we do, and we go out and try and get better with each record we make.

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

Some people will never let the grime thing go, but my fifth album is not meant to sound like my first album.

I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn't an R&B singer or nothing. Not an R&B singer. I didn't do no melodic songs, none of that yet.

I try to stay true to my style, and I understand the foundation of my style and where it came from. But at the same time, you take that experience and learn different ways to write, different ways to turn on that creative energy.

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.