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 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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Kids
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• 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.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Worry
  • Jazz
  • Discussion

• I refute it thus.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

  

  Ken Kercheval
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Anna Pavlova
  • Success
  • Small
  • Butterfly

• 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.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• We like songs that are familiar.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Up

• 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.

  

  Jerry West
  • Time
  • Mind

• Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Money
  • Forever

• I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

  

  Mariano Rivera
  • Professional

• When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Up
  • Work
  • True

• You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Children

• The constant is always mythologies and the very first stories that we have. All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Up

• If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Hockey

• I get a bit insecure if I feel like there's too much makeup on my face or if I feel like I'm cakey.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Makeup

• The problem with the world is there's too many stupid people and nobody to eat them.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • World
  • Problem
  • Stupid

• It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Sometimes
  • Television
  • Theater

• Before the civil war commenced, the United States of America were colonies, and we should not forget that such communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • America
  • War
  • Independent

• 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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  • Elton John`s band
  • Joni Mitchell`s band
  • Miles Davis band