Steve Miller

Musician

1943-10-05

Quotes by Steve Miller

• Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar behind my head and do the splits in 1951 when I was nine.

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• 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.

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

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• As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and '66, I immediately left Chicago where I was working in a nightclub that was being shaken down by the mafia and the police for payments. I mean, it was a real thug world.

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• I can walk into Tower Records, go get my box set, take out my Steve Miller credit card, and the clerk will look at me and go, 'Thanks, next.'

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

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

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• 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.

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• The digital world is so convenient and nice, but just playing back a vinyl record is a much warmer, hotter, more present feeling.

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• I'm sort of standing on T-Bone Walker's shoulders, Les Paul's shoulders, Lightnin' Hopkins' shoulders, Muddy Waters' shoulders, you know? And if I've inspired other people, I'm pleased. That pleases me greatly.

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