Song Quotes by Steve Miller

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

— Steve Miller

The record business has been so unpleasant and so bad for so long.

— Steve Miller

Ooh Poo Pah Doo' was a monster song.

— Steve Miller

Record companies, they're just like lemmings.

— Steve Miller

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

— Steve Miller

That's what I wanted to do was play music.

— Steve Miller

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

— Steve Miller

Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.

— Steve Miller

My strongest message is: 'Never give your songs away. Never sign a contract you can't get out of.'

— Steve Miller

I love the sound of vinyl best. My sweetheart and I love to put on a vinyl record, it feels and sounds…

— Steve Miller

I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out,…

— Steve Miller

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

— Steve Miller

The digital world is so convenient and nice, but just playing back a vinyl record is a much warmer, hotter, more present…

— Steve Miller

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

— Steve Miller

My father had a phenomenal knowledge of music; my mom's family were all musicians.

— Steve Miller

Vinyl's like a really juicy steak compared to like a kind of tough steak or something. It's really good. And once you…

— Steve Miller

Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play…

— Steve Miller

When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He…

— Steve Miller

Growing up, I was always around adult musicians who played for their entire lives. So that's what I wanted to do, and…

— Steve Miller

I'm sort of standing on T-Bone Walker's shoulders, Les Paul's shoulders, Lightnin' Hopkins' shoulders, Muddy Waters' shoulders, you know? And if I've…

— Steve Miller

If folks really want music in their community they can do it very cheaply. It doesn't have to be a $50 million…

— Steve Miller

I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the…

— Steve Miller

Generally what you see happen is these talented kids make a great album, but they don't have a chance unless they have…

— Steve Miller

I want to entertain my audience. I know when then come and see me play, if I don't do 'Swing Town,' 'Jet…

— Steve Miller

We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going…

— Steve Miller

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree

— Steve Miller

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

— Steve Miller

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

— Steve Miller

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.

— Steve Miller

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

— Steve Miller

I really enjoy working with luthiers, and have a couple of really old Les Pauls and one of my original Strats that…

— Steve Miller