Marcus Miller – HuffPost 8.17.12

Mike Ragogna: Marcus, you have had such an amazing career and have worked with so many incredible artists. Do you have any advice for new artists?

Marcus Miller: Well, there’s no one way to make it in this business. Every artist that you speak to has a different path that they took to get to their success. The thing that you have to do is to make sure that you have a unique point of view. There are a lot of artists who sound a lot like other artists and they have nothing to set them apart. The thing that makes you special is your point of view, especially with musicians. A lot of musicians give me their demos and each of the four tracks on the demo sound like a different artist. The thing about being an artist is that what you’re really presenting, besides your technique and your sound, is your point of view. That’s what makes you an artist as opposed to a really great side man. So, I would say that you really have to try and figure out who you are and how you hear music and commit to that.