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Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

- Steve Miller
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That's what I wanted to do was play music.

As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and '66, I immediately left Chicago where I was working in a nightclub that was being shaken down by the mafia and the police for payments. I mean, it was a real thug world.

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you mix it together, and that's my basic makeup.

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.

When I was a kid, I never thought I would ever be able to make records and never really thought seriously about a musical career because a musical career was being Fabian or Frankie Avalon or something. It didn't make any sense. There wasn't any possibility to get into that world.

The Joker,' I made the album in 17 days and it was my last shot.

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

It'd be really great to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame mature. It's a good facility there in Cleveland. I like the museum a lot.

I'm sort of standing on T-Bone Walker's shoulders, Les Paul's shoulders, Lightnin' Hopkins' shoulders, Muddy Waters' shoulders, you know? And if I've inspired other people, I'm pleased. That pleases me greatly.

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Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.