Steve Lukather Quotes
I was asked to be in Elton John's band, Joni Mitchell's band, and Miles Davis' band. I couldn't do it.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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I refute it thus.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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The loss of consciousness for me was never any great loss.
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For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.
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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
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Some young people can rely on a privileged background and great connections to get work experience, but I don't believe anybody can be guaranteed success nowadays.
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We like songs that are familiar.
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We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.
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'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
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When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
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Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.
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I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
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Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
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There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism.... Should we counsel the people, 'Just live your religion - there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion.
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I was asked to be in Elton John's band, Joni Mitchell's band, and Miles Davis' band. I couldn't do it.
