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I love all kinds of music.

From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.

Boz Scaggs

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.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

Boz Scaggs

Music

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.

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

Boz Scaggs

Music

Style

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

Ben Savage

Music

Want

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

Life

Music

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

David Sanborn

Music

Media

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.