It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do. — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Luther Vandross was doing fine, but he said, "Man, I want to do my own project." So he got us all to do a demo, and that demo was "Never Too Much." It took him a year and a half to get signed, because he didn't have a gimmick. The record companies were looking for his gimmick. They said, "What's… — Marcus Miller Copy Share
It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated. — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I brought the music out to L.A., and the producer Tommy LaPuma heard it and he said - "Man, I love it. Let's do it. Let's record it." I said, "Okay, where's the band?" He said, "We don't have a band. We want it to sound exactly like your demo." I said, "Well, I played all the instruments on the… — Marcus Miller Copy Share
Miles Davis had been in retirement for five or six years and he was coming out of retirement and he was looking for young guys. Somebody gave him my name and he called me and said, "Can you show up at Columbia Studios in two hours?" I'm like, "Whoa, is this the real Miles Davis?" He's like, "Yeah." So I… — Marcus Miller Copy Share
I revisited some music that I had written for Miles Devis. I used to work with Miles in the '80s. We did an album - "Tutu," that was really successful for Miles, and a couple of years ago we did "Tutu Revisited," and this is where we played the music from "Tutu." But I knew Miles would absolutely hate it… — Marcus Miller Copy Share
Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then went and single-handedly revolutionized music videos. It’s amazing that today, some twenty-five years later, everyone who makes a pop music video still feels obligated to include a 'group dance' sequence like the one Michael pioneered… — Marcus Miller Copy Share
There's a lot of guys who have great technique, people practicing a lot and you hear them, but there's not that many people who… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Miles Davis came in a couple of days and said, "Oh, man, I love that. Keep going." So he said, "Let me know when you need trumpet." And he came in, and he was sitting there, and I was very intimidated, because now he's going to play the trumpet on something that I wrote." He starts to play, and I… — Marcus Miller Copy Share
