Marcus Miller Quotes (11 Quotes)

Hip-hop influences everything and everybody. It's not just music. It's...a culture. Guys like the clean look now ever since Jay-Z said, 'and I don't wear jerseys no mo I'm 30 plus, give me a fresh pair of jeans and a button up'. Before that, Jay-Z had everyone wearing jerseys. Jerseys were the thing. But now it's different.

I pull them out from time to time depending on the vibe, ... That's a great thing about jazz We leave it a little space so that we have the opportunity to go where the moment takes us.

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

If you listen to Donny Hathaway, he had a lot of jazz elements in the way he sang, ... For me, the two styles borrow from each other so much that sometimes it's hard for me to make a distinction. When you hear Lalah sing the combination, that's when she really shines -- when she's allowed to dip into her jazz when she wants to and then get soulful and do the RB thing.

We learned a lot more from how we played tonight, than what happened last night (a 12-2 win over Washington). Good teams like West quickly exposed some of the things we need to work on.

Kanye West took Sean Carter's grown man look to a different level. I remember when white dudes were the only ones who wore blazers and jeans. Now you gotta look like that to even go to the club,

In this era it's harder for musicians to get together, ... Back in the '80s, we were all at the clubs, you ran into people all the time. Now, everybody's kind of in their own room with their computers. I use making an album as an opportunity to connect with musicians.

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I'm on some singer's record date for a demo and I get a note to call Miles Davis. Of course, I didn't believe it, but I wasn't going to take a chance by not calling, and it was Miles. He said, 'I've got a session in an hour over at Columbia, can you make it'

Everyone was talking about her and telling me I had to check out Donny's daughter, ... I had a gig in Japan at a festival and I wanted to bring in something new, so I asked her to perform. She was just so musical, so fantastic. Every once in a while she would hit one of those notes that would make you think of her father. We've been working together off and on since then.

Miller still sounds awed when he recounts almost immediately finding himself in a studio with Davis. He hadn't played in five or six years, since I was 15 or 16 years old, ... As far as I was concerned he was as done as John Coltrane. And then to actually be there with my bass in my hand, looking across at him and we're playing together, I can't describe it. The thing that struck me was that I thought he was at least 6-feet-7. I had to adjust to him being around 5-feet-8.