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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• 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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• I refute it thus.

  

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• Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.

  

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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.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Elton John`s band
  • Joni Mitchell`s band
  • Miles Davis band