Steve Lukather Quotes

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Steve Lukather

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 21, 1957

MTV ruined music for us.

Steve Lukather

I got to work with legendary people.

Steve Lukather

Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.

Steve Lukather

My son is a professional musician now.

Steve Lukather

What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.

Steve Lukather

Everyone I know, including myself, has missed or lost an audition.

Steve Lukather

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.

Steve Lukather

There's so many players that I love and admire. Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Mike Landau, Robben Ford, Lee Ritenour, Jay Graydon, John Scofield, Warren Haynes - the list goes on and on.

Steve Lukather

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

Steve Lukather

In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.

Steve Lukather

We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.

Steve Lukather

Everything we got was never given to us.

Steve Lukather

When people make fun of us, it's fine. I get it.

Steve Lukather

To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.

Steve Lukather

I can hear the youthfulness of my playing on, say, 'Hold The Line.'

Steve Lukather

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.

Steve Lukather

I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.

Steve Lukather

I just think that there is something that keeps us together, to keep doing what we're doing. I can't really put my finger on it other than each record is like a little snapshot of my life at that particular moment, the way I play, the way I sound, the way I wrote, the way I sing, I can hear it.

Steve Lukather

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.

Steve Lukather

The music business used to be filled with people who love music.

Steve Lukather