Boz Scaggs Quotes

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 The Steve Miller Band

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

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• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  

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• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

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• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

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• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

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• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  

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• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

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• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

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• As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

  

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• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

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• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

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• I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.

  

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• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

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• On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

  

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• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

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• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

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• 'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.

  

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• Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

  

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• I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

  

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• I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

  

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• When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

  

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• 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 The Steve Miller Band
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