Marcus Miller Quotes

• Es lo bueno de ser músico: no paras hasta el día de tu muerte, puedes mejorar. Así que es algo maravilloso.

  Marcus Miller

  Inspirational, Music, African American

  Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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• I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together.

  Marcus Miller

  Music, Beautiful, Teamwork

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.

  Marcus Miller

  Important, Intimidated

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• There's a lot of guys who have great technique, people practicing a lot and you hear them, but there's not that many people who when you hear them, you go, "Man, that guy must practice a lot," right? Then you hear Miles Davis play, and you go, "Man, I had a girlfriend like that." That's a whole another level of musicianship.

  Marcus Miller

  Novia, Hombres, Gente

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• Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just has a command of the instrument, but can actually say something to make you feel something, make you think about something.

  Marcus Miller

  Thinking, Guy, Make You Think

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• Miles Davis had been in retirement for five or six years and he was coming out of retirement and he was looking for young guys. Somebody gave him my name and he called me and said, "Can you show up at Columbia Studios in two hours?" I'm like, "Whoa, is this the real Miles Davis?" He's like, "Yeah." So I showed up and yeah, it was intimidating, but music is so important to me that the intimidation was all before the notes started.

  Marcus Miller

  Retirement, Real, Guy

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• Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then went and single-handedly revolutionized music videos. It’s amazing that today, some twenty-five years later, everyone who makes a pop music video still feels obligated to include a 'group dance' sequence like the one Michael pioneered in 'Beat It'. That’s how influential and ahead of the times he was.

  Marcus Miller

  Years, Twenties, Groups

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• I was with Miles Davisfor a couple of years as his bass player, and it was a beautiful experience. After two years I said to him, "Listen, man, I want to leave your band." He goes, "Why?" I said, "Because I want to develop not just as a bass player, but I want to get more into composition, into producing, and I'm working with Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross and all these guys, and I want to really see how much I can grow and develop." He actually gave me his blessing.

  Marcus Miller

  Beautiful, Couple, Blessing

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• I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and the clarinet wasn't fit. So you was "Hey, man, can I sit in?" They're like, "No, man." So I started fooling around with the bass.

  Marcus Miller

  Player, Men, Fit

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• De los 13 a los 17, 18 años; pensaba que así era el mundo. Nunca se me ocurrió que era un período muy inusual en la historia de la música. Así que seguí adelante asumiendo que algún día tendría mi banda como mis héroes tenían su propia banda. Así que la gente me hace esta pregunta todo el tiempo: "El bajo es básicamente un instrumento de fondo". La otra cosa es que en la música urbana, la música negra, el bajo tiene un perfil mucho más alto.

  Marcus Miller

  Hero, People, Black

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• Miles Davis came in a couple of days and said, "Oh, man, I love that. Keep going." So he said, "Let me know when you need trumpet." And he came in, and he was sitting there, and I was very intimidated, because now he's going to play the trumpet on something that I wrote." He starts to play, and I go, "That's not right, but I don't know how to tell him it's not right." Finally he goes, "When are you going to tell me what to do?" He said, "This is your music. I know you know how it's supposed to sound. Stop fooling around. We don't have time."

  Marcus Miller

  Couple, Men, Let Me

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• I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own funeral because of the way the headline read.

  Marcus Miller

  Funeral, Text Message

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• Luther Vandross was doing fine, but he said, "Man, I want to do my own project." So he got us all to do a demo, and that demo was "Never Too Much." It took him a year and a half to get signed, because he didn't have a gimmick. The record companies were looking for his gimmick. They said, "What's your gimmick?" He said, "I sing. That's my gimmick." Anyway, he finally got signed and the record was released, and the rest was history.

  Marcus Miller

  Hombres, Lutero

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• I revisited some music that I had written for Miles Devis. I used to work with Miles in the '80s. We did an album - "Tutu," that was really successful for Miles, and a couple of years ago we did "Tutu Revisited," and this is where we played the music from "Tutu." But I knew Miles would absolutely hate it if we just got on the stage and played the music the same way we did it in the '80s.

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  Couple, Hate, Successful

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• It happened to be, from '73 to '78, the five years that, our most glorious years for bass players. We had Larry Graham, with his own band, Stanley Clarke with his own band. We have Bootsy doing his thing. We had Jaco Pastorius. They were all leading their own bands.

  Marcus Miller

  Player, Glorious

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• Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's like the mom to all these young musicians in New York. At that time that I met Luther, I was a musician snob. For me, the singers were just the people out in the front to keep the audience entertained. While the musicians did the real work.

  Marcus Miller

  Beautiful, Mom, Real

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• Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser.

  Marcus Miller

  Musician, Hook, Fame

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• Llevé la música a Los Ángeles y el productor Tommy LaPuma la escuchó y dijo: "Tío, me encanta. Hagámoslo. Grabémoslo". Le dije: "Bueno, ¿dónde está la banda?" Él dijo: "No tenemos una banda. Queremos que suene exactamente como tu demo". Le dije: "Bueno, yo toqué todos los instrumentos en la demo." Haces eso cuando haces demos. Tienes tu guitarra, tienes tu saxo. Él dijo: "Bueno, quiero que suene igual, así que trae todos tus instrumentos aquí". Así que terminé tocando todos los instrumentos.

  Marcus Miller

  Men, Like You, Producers

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• Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself.
  I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound.

  Marcus Miller

  Names, Individuality, Sound

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