Ramiz Mirishli was born in Nakhchivan.

He studied at the Asef Zeynalli Music School (1952-1954) and the Azerbaijan State Conservatory, specializing in composition (1956-1962).

He began his career in 1954 as a musician at the Azerbaijan Radio and Information Department. Until 1962, he worked as a teacher at various music schools. He worked as a senior editor and editor-in-chief in the music editorial office of the Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (1962-2005), head of the Nakhchivan branch of the Composers' Union (1978-1998), and artistic director of the Song and Dance Ensemble at the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic (1987-1995). Since 1972, he has been a teacher, associate professor and professor at the Baku Academy of Music, and from 2005 until the end of his life, he has been engaged in pedagogical activity as a professor at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory. He is the author of songs and romances, works in the field of film and theater music. He wrote 4 musical comedies, a symphony for chamber orchestra, 3 symphonic poems, 4 symphonic suites, 3 cantatas, 2 vocal collections for voice and orchestra, 12 suites and miniatures for piano, music for more than 40 theater performances and films, hundreds of songs, the vocal poem "Peyghambarin tafidi" for soloist, choir and symphony orchestra to Nizami Ganjavi's ghazal (1997), songs and romances.

Ramiz Mirishli, Honored Art Worker of Nakhchivan (1974), Honored Art Worker (1982), People's Artist (1990), Professor (1993), laureate of the orders "Shohrat" (2004) and "Sharaf" (2014), died in 2015 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.

Composer Ramiz Mirishli is the father of composer Nazim Mirishli.