I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and the clarinet wasn't fit. So you was "Hey, man, can I sit in?" They're like, "No,… — 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… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
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… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Miles Davis had been in retirement for five or six years and he was coming out of retirement and he was looking for young… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I revisited some music that I had written for Miles Devis. I used to work with Miles in the '80s. We did an album… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
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… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
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… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
