Love Quote by Boz Scaggs

Scaggs frames the mission in the language musicians trust most: purpose, audience, and the quiet moral charge of the gig. He isn’t selling charity as a separate, saintly act; he’s arguing that outreach is baked into the job description. “Take to heart” makes it personal, almost bodily. The cause isn’t an abstract campaign, it’s a commitment that fits inside the musician’s existing identity: you play because you need to share.

The subtext is about access, and also about legitimacy. “One of our main reasons for being” elevates performance from entertainment to something closer to civic service, but without grandstanding. He’s careful not to say “we’re saving people.” Instead, he stresses proximity: “this takes us to people.” The artist moves toward the audience, not the other way around. That’s a subtle rebuke to the usual cultural pipeline where “good music” is something you discover if you have the money, geography, education, or luck.

Then comes the loaded phrase: “music on quite this level.” It’s humble-brag adjacent, but it’s doing strategic work. Scaggs is defending professionalism as a public good. The point isn’t just exposure to music; it’s exposure to excellence, to the full, lived power of a high-level performance that can reset someone’s sense of what art can be. In a culture where “access” often means streaming a playlist, he’s making a case for the irreplaceable human delivery of music - and for taking it to the margins rather than waiting for the margins to come to the stage.