Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It wasn't the country guys and it wasn't the white guys;… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
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. — Steve Miller Copy Share
With the search for the Higgs, we're involved with 5% of the visual universe, and now we have 95% of the invisible universe that's… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall guys operate,… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Vinyl's like a really juicy steak compared to like a kind of tough steak or something. It's really good. And once you listen to… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
From the minute I became aware of Jimmie Vaughan and his playing, he was one of my very favorites. So I made it my… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need,… — Steve Miller Copy Share
We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all… — Steve Miller Copy Share
I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
