Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Miller - Page 2

I think the audiences abroad are older and come from a more mature society. They have a different understanding of whats happening as art.

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

I wake up every day excited to play.

Looking at Capitol's performance over a 22-year period, I figure they were focused three years out of the 22 I worked for them.

Vinyl's like a really juicy steak compared to like a kind of tough steak or something. It's really good. And once you listen to vinyl and get a chance to hear it, I think anyone will enjoy it more than they will digital.

We are living in a country that has taken the short view on everything. We have sold our future.

I love the sound of vinyl best. My sweetheart and I love to put on a vinyl record, it feels and sounds so much better.

My father had a phenomenal knowledge of music; my mom's family were all musicians.

When I was a kid this is what I was listening to on my car radio - Lowell Fulsom singing 'Tramp.'

I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.

I kind of enjoyed having people complain that I wasn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than I think I'll like being in it.

My plan is to keep playing until I fall over.

I really enjoy working with luthiers, and have a couple of really old Les Pauls and one of my original Strats that I still carry on the road.

I've recorded lots of projects, but just haven't bothered to release them.

You have to know what your value is. I started learning my value when I was 12 years old.

The audience wants to hear 'Rock n' Me,' 'Space Cowboy,' 'Living in the U.S.A.' When you start to play something else, you can feel the interest and enthusiasm go; the steam goes out of room. They are really 'Greatest Hits' fans and that's what they want to hear. It's disappointing that it's this way in the U.S.

Ooh Poo Pah Doo' was a monster song.

Record companies, they're just like lemmings.

There aren't that many people that cover my music. It's kind of hard to cover. Everybody always has their own spin. The only guy who didn't, I think, was Seal. It just sounded like a bad version of 'Fly Like an Eagle.'

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

I never considered myself like a pop musician or rock star, because that didn't really exist when I started.

Our real business is the people who come to see us play and want to hear us play, so I have a very active career.

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

The record business has been so unpleasant and so bad for so long.

Very rarely can you bring someone new into a band and have them just fit perfectly, right away.

For the longest time, I was uninterested in dealing with EMI Records.

Being talented was a hard way to make it. But I made it on my talent and songs.

Each time I hit the road to gig, it still feels like I'm going to summer camp.

I was born to be a musician.

By 1949 I knew all the studio tricks.

Generally what you see happen is these talented kids make a great album, but they don't have a chance unless they have someone working with them who has integrity. They get thrown out by MTV and radio in six weeks, and they don't get any time to grow.

I've been blessed to work with so many wonderful musicians and engineers and friends over the years.

If folks really want music in their community they can do it very cheaply. It doesn't have to be a $50 million program. All we need is just a little real estate.

Growing up, I was always around adult musicians who played for their entire lives. So that's what I wanted to do, and I always had that in mind.

In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.

I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life. As soon as I formed my first band, we played Jimmy Reed stuff. So it wasn't like I was a white kid who was learning the blues from B.B. King records.

I don't even hear radio anymore.

My strongest message is: 'Never give your songs away. Never sign a contract you can't get out of.'

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

We have screwed with our environment. We have a culture that's going crazy, and it's all being propelled by the trillion-dollar advertising corporations.

Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.

No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.

We hate to be cheering for high gas prices. The reality is that's what's happening.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree

You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too.

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

With the search for the Higgs, we're involved with 5% of the visual universe, and now we have 95% of the invisible universe that's coming into view. That's amazing.

Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.

Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.

Some call me a gangster of love

Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.

Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill.

We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.

Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of art world judgment, part of it, is based on people's statistics; their measure of financial value: of likes, of popularity. Data and technology are invading the traditional and classic set of criteria.

We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value.

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

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