The Steve Miller Band Quotes
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You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.
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Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.
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There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
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Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.
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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
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I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
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A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
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I'm not a jazz singer.
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I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
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From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
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As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
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My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
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I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
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I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
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My first love was the sound of guitar.
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Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.
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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, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.
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I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
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As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
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The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
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In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime...
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I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
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Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
