Steve Miller Quotes

I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it. ~ Miles Davis

Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill. ~ Steve Miller

We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way. ~ Steve Miller

Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore. ~ Steve Miller

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible ~ Steve Miller

Some call me a gangster of love ~ Steve Miller

If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf. ~ Nicholas Sparks

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. ~ Steve Miller

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my loving on the run ~ Steve Miller Band

We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value. ~ Steve Miller

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. ~ Boz Scaggs

We hate to be cheering for high gas prices. The reality is that's what's happening. ~ Steve Miller

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle. ~ Coolio

Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts. ~ Steve Miller

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation. ~ Steve Backley

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress ~ Arthur Miller

About pain and suffering--he thought that you can bear it all. It's only the fear of pain and suffering that is unbearable. ~ Steve Toltz

Take ACTION! When we DO NOT take action, our potentiality becomes the soil that houses the seeds of our regret. ~ Steve Maraboli

If you were given to thinking of numbers as having human-like qualities, you might picture e^i*pi as a guru into transcendental meditation who'd achieved infinite enlightenment. But there's a problem with that-Euler's formula shows that e^i*pi can never free itslef from worldly concerns. Recall, e^i*pi is really -1 in disguise, and -1 is just a mathism for owing a dollar to your friend, Steve. One hand clapping. ~ David Stipp

It was time to call on my old paisan Steve Van Zandt. ~ Bruce Springsteen

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model. ~ Mac Miller

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied. ~ Henry Miller

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects. ~ Steve Vai

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive. ~ Steve McConnell

I myself despise "Macarena," and yet I have been humming it for the past three days and my two-year-old daughter is now humming it and I'm pretty sure she will never stop. ~ Steve Almond

Touch her," he vowed in a low voice, "and I'll feed you to the gators, piece by piece." Macon ~ Linda Lael Miller

Is it true that if you don't USE it you LOSE it? ~ Steve Carell

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off. ~ Penelope Ann Miller

If I had it to do all over again ... I wouldn't change a thing.' ... the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation. ~ Steve Erickson

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show. ~ Elvis Presley

I
believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up
her dress. ~ Steve Martin

The Macintosh was sort of like this wonderful romance in your life that you once had - and that produced about 10 million children. In a way it will never be over in your life. You'll still smell that romance every morning when you get up. And when you open the window, the cool air will hit your face, and you'll smell that romance in the air. And you'll see your children around, and you feel good about it. And nothing will ever make you feel bad about it. ~ Steve Jobs

It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path. ~ Alice Miller

When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union. ~ Steve Breen

When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love. ~ Steve Nash

I just like being in a place where there are lots of people playing. You might get to spend a minute, or collaborate. ~ Steve Kimock

The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have to be insane to actively want to piss that man off." "Insane or very sure of yourself," I said. ~ Steve McHugh

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology ~ Steve Jobs

You might tell me next week, Miller, what you think science has done for us, besides making us very comfortable." As ~ Willa Cather

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian. ~ Steve Martin

There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war. ~ Steve Mann

The Father, Son, and Spirit already knew and enjoyed a perfect relationship, so why else would He purpose to create a species with which He might share this love? What could possibly motivate Him to want to expand the circle? Love - that is the only possible reason. Our God is a selfless, generous, other-centered, giving God. He didn't need you. He wanted you! ~ Steve McVey

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other. ~ Steve Aylett

Ambition is a poor excuse for not being smart enough to be lazy. ~ Steve Wright

Chickens are soaked in baths of chlorine to remove slime and odor. Mixtures of excrement, blood, oil, grease, rust, paint, insecticides, and rodent droppings accumulate in processing plants. Maggots and other larvae breed in storage and transportation containers, on the floor, and in processing equipment and packaging, and they drop onto the conveyor belt from infested meat splattered on the ceiling. ~ Steve Striffler

Words are the true weapons of mass destruction ~ Steve Berry

Steve Earle, the thinking man's Bruce Springsteen, ~ Ian McEwan

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.' ~ T. J. Miller