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… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's like the mom to all these young musicians in New York. At that time that I met Luther,… — 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
