A biography for Steve Millerhasn’t been written yet.
“I was born to be a musician.”
“It'd be really great to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame mature. It's a good facility there in Cleveland. I like the museum a lot.”
“I don't even hear radio anymore.”
“When I was a kid, I never thought I would ever be able to make records and never really thought seriously about a musical career because a musical career was being Fabian or Frankie Avalon or something. It didn't make any sense. There wasn't any possibility to get into that world.”
“We have screwed with our environment. We have a culture that's going crazy, and it's all being propelled by the trillion-dollar advertising corporations.”
“I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life. As soon as I formed my first band, we played Jimmy Reed stuff. So it wasn't like I was a white kid who was learning the blues from B.B. King records.”
“There aren't very many clubs. There's no place for people to develop and play.”
“When 'Joker' came out in '73, I finally got a viral hit. Every DJ who heard it played it.”
“What the hell is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what does it do besides talk about itself and sell postcards?”
“My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But it was put together in a deceptively simple package.”
“Each time I hit the road to gig, it still feels like I'm going to summer camp.”
“I think the audiences abroad are older and come from a more mature society. They have a different understanding of whats happening as art.”
“You better believe I'm not a pop star.”
“What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing.”
“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; it was the Blues guys. That's where the real fire is in all of this rock and roll music.”
“All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.”
“In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.”
“I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.”
“I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.”
“Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.”