Love Quote by Boz Scaggs

Not a person, not a face, not even a scene: Scaggs frames desire as a vibration. "My first love was the sound of guitar" rewires the usual origin story of romance into an origin story of listening, and that choice matters. It suggests intimacy before biography. Love arrives as timbre and resonance, not as narrative. For a musician whose career sits at the crossroads of blues apprenticeship, studio polish, and radio-friendly soul, the line is also a quiet manifesto: the instrument came first; everything else was an adaptation.

The phrasing is tellingly sensual but not sentimental. He doesn’t say he loved guitar as an object or a skill; he loved its sound, the thing that exists only when someone makes it speak. That subtext points to community and influence: the guitar as a conduit for other people’s feeling, for Black American musical traditions Scaggs drew from, for the electric shock of hearing records and wanting to enter their world. It’s love as apprenticeship, not ownership.

Contextually, Scaggs comes out of an era when the guitar wasn’t just an instrument; it was a passport. In postwar America, especially through rock and blues, guitar carried rebellion, masculinity, virtuosity, and portability. Calling it a "first love" acknowledges how formative that sonic identity can be: before the industry, before the image, before the persona, there was the moment of being moved by a sound and deciding to chase it for life.