Steve Lukather Quotes
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There is no one like Toto in history in that we were both successful as session musicians and also had a band that sold so many million records.
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We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.
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I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.
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The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.
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I get up now at 5:30 in the morning. I practice the guitar for a couple of hours - I do that before I even start my day.
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The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.
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Y'know, it's funny: I didn't think I'd be playing 'Hold The Line' at 60 years old. I was 19 when I first played that.
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I thought that you had to work, work, work and try to be the best musician you could, and that's the only way you could make it. Then it turns out, halfway through the scene, they change the rules on you!
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Rosanna was the hit, but Africa resonated with everyone who heard it.
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My band did the Teenage Fair battle of the bands - problem was we were 11 years old! They gave us a prize for youngest band ever.
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When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.
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I'm a weird guy with a weird sense of humor.
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I got caught up in 35 years of Saturday nights. Every night was like party night to me. As a young man, you can do that; it's OK to be an idiot. But I woke up one day, and I realized that 35 years had gone by.
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I don't believe that heavy strings make it all that much bigger-sounding. If anything, it can mess up your fingers, and you can get tendonitis, which is not cool.
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The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.
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That's all that matters in music: fun.
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I've got the coolest job in the world.
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When a new record came out, the world would stop that day, and we would sit in somebody's house - whoever had the best stereo system - and sit in the middle of the two speakers and listen and discuss and listen again and go over the album notes and get out the guitar and start playing it and discuss and play some more.
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I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'
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We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?
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Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.
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Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.
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When people make fun of us, it's fine. I get it.
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hen I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.