155 Quotes by Steve Miller

From a small child to right now - I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul, Mary Ford, people like that were coming over to my house. So I was around professional adult mature musicians who had had big careers.

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

The truth of the matter is, things that feel spontaneous have a much longer life than things that have got a lot of burnt brain tissue to make them perfect.

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

Ooh Poo Pah Doo' was a monster song.

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.

I played American football, but I did my best work with baseball.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me, but it does get old for me when my audience is just only interested in something they've already heard.