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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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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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
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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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A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
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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 songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
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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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I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
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My first love was the sound of guitar.
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My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
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I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
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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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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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I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
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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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I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
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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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I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.