Merle Haggard remembers the night that Roger "stole" his fiddle. Hear him sing 'Old Friends' with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. smarturl.it/Rog...
Quotes about Roger from other songwriters Roger Miller is right up there with Mark Twain and Steven Foster, real America originalsRoger was the guy everyone wanted to write like. Roger was the guy responsible for making country music cool to the pop music world. He cut Bobby McGee and is was like having Dylan do it to have Roger cut it, you have to understand he was Huge, I was singinghis songs before I even got to Nashville Kris Kristofferson I loved his writing, a lot of people don’t really know Roger, Don’t know how good he really was, Roger never did get the recognition he deserved for being the writer that he really was, Roger was mostly known for his novelty songs, but he was probably one of the bets ballad writers there ever was. Willie Nelson Roger was the most unique human being I have ever met Buck Owens Roger was lost between the rock field the pop field and the country field They didn’t know what category to put him in. Waylon Jennings He was a phenomenal thinker and truly worthy of having the term Genius applied to his musical prowess, It’s not over used when applied to Roger Miller. In my opinion I just think he’s a true song writing genius a lyrical genius as good as Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter Dwight Yoakam No one said it quite like Roger. Was he a genius? The ones who know think so Toby Keith I admired him as much as you could admire anybody Merle Haggard He was the most talented singer, the most talented and gifted person of the centuty Mickey Newbury Roger Miller was the most spontaneously creative person I ever met Jimmy Dean Roger had genius Mel Tillis Roger wss closest to a genius I’ve ever known, because he could do things with the English language that were almost unbelievable Bill Anderson I don’t think Roger has ever had just dues. OK they put him in the hall of fame. That’s nice but there’s so much more to Roger. He did it all, Buddy Killen Roger was just one of those unexplainable, once-in-a-lifetime, God sent phenomenon. I quote him almost on a daily basis Marty Stuart He’s one of the best song writers I’ve ever heard. He wrote with quality even his novelty songs like “Dang Me” and “Chug a Lug" but when you get to songs like :Husbands and Wives' and "When Two Worlds Collide" he just wrote from one spectrum to another Curly Putnam Every day that Roger Miller was in my life was a brighter day Johnny Cash Hank Williams, Bob Dylan and Roger Miller,” were my biggest influences :commenting on Roger Miller “He’d take words anywhere. He’d just take them anywhere he’d bend and shape them any way he wanted them, to get to the end result and I thought that was just great.” .John Prine
"i loved him a lot" ..... you can see the pain of loss on Merle's face. the worst part of getting old is watching friends and family die ...... to be the last one standing, it breaks a mans heart.
