Steve Lukather Quotes

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Steve Lukather

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 21, 1957

I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.

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I listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot.

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I've never stopped working, and I still have 'pinch me' moments all the time.

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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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Self-deprecation is my game.

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When the Beatles were on 'Ed Sullivan,' life went from black and white to color like in 'The Wizard of Oz' - and the irony I'm in the band Toto is not lost on me.

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God bless classic rock. It's been very good to me; I'll tell you that.

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I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

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I play keyboards and have played on many a Toto record.

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Gear not working on a live show - that is rough.

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Being out of tune sucks.

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As a session player for so many years, I have found myself in rooms looking around going, 'Is this for real?'

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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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When the 'Thriller' album came up, we all knew that was going to be the cool record.

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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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The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

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If someone sees me with what looks like a beer, it's always zero per cent.

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I don't question things when they're going right.

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There are so many myths about us.

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Especially early on, I had no idea what I was going to be asked to do when I walked into a studio. I was doing 26 sessions a week - all day, all night.

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