Quotes by Steve Lukather - Page 2

That's the thing, though: It doesn't matter how much you've done or who you've played with. Do you have the passion?
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Passion
Played
How Much
Though
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Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Details
Our Music
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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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Battle
Prize
Teenage
Youngest
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People like our stuff, some people hate it, but that's like anything, right? Some people love donuts, some people are allergic to 'em.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Allergic
Donuts
Love Hate People
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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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Session
Sold
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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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
No Idea
All Day
Night Day Doing
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I ain't the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I've dedicated my life to music since I was 7 and my dad bought me a guitar and the 'Meet the Beatles' album.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Bread
Dedicated
Life Music Dad
Beatles
Greatest Thing
Sliced
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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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Band
Black
Black And White
Color
Irony
Lost
White
Life Me Lost
Life Black And White Black
Wizard
Oz
Sullivan
Wizard Of Oz
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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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Fingers
Heavy
Mess
Strings
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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 / Guitarist
Discovering
Peers
Love Day Never
Underground
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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 / Guitarist
Combination
Solo
Great Song
Inventive
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If it wasn't for Boz, my life would've changed. Meeting the Porcaro brothers and getting that Boz Scaggs gig were two life-changing events for me. It all fell into place after that.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Life Changing
Life Me My Life
Gig
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I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Silliness
Stupidity
Youth
Decisions
Played
Older
Reflect
Whatnot
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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 / Guitarist
Admire
Mike
Ford
Jay
Joe
Lee
Steve
Warren
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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!
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Halfway
Change Best Work
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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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Caught
Every Night
Saturday
Young Man
Man Me Day
Man Me Night
Nights
Woke
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I was doing our first album when I was 19. It came out as a hit, and I blinked - then 37 years went by. There's a lot of stuff that happened in there, but once the snowball started going down the hill, I took the ride.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Snowball
Ride
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A lot of festivals on a worldwide basis that I am seeing, they're trying to multi-genre it. Like, they put a wild card band on, like, us old guys that happen to have a record that has stayed in pop culture for as long as it has.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Festivals
Pop Culture
Card
Stayed
Worldwide
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In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy's Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio - we were actually pretty good for our age.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Age
Band
Borrowed
Guy
Tone
Little
Had
Actually
Good Age Power
Pretty
Sixth
Power Good Age
Twin
Fender
Grade
Straight
Pretty Good
Trio
Waterfall
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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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Outrageous
Sameness
Outdo
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I can't sight-read classical etudes - I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is a wonderful tool. It's like speaking another language. Anyone that says reading music can hurt your playing is either stupid, lazy, or ignorant.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Ignorant
Lazy
Classical
Tool
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I did grow up with Michael Landau, my brother since we were 12 years old. That was competition but in the best way. He is such a monster, always was, and we had a blast growing up playing in bands and early recording and are still the best of pals.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Best Way
Blast
Pals
Best Always Competition
Monster
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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 / Guitarist
Groove
Rhythm
First Thing
Next Thing
The First Thing
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When 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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Journey
British
Changed
Forever
Great Music
Guitar Player
Hendrix
Invasion
Motown
My Journey
Stones
Life Great Music
Alien
Life Music Great
Landed
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Vocally and stylistically, we'd have different kinds of songs come on the radio, and people didn't realize it was the same band. A lot of the time, a casual fan would come see us and go, 'I didn't know that you guys did that song. I didn't know that was you!' That was us!
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Band
Casual
Different Kinds
Radio
Song
Time People Song
Did
Fan
Time Song People
Guys
Realize
Stylistically
You Guys
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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 / Guitarist
Finger
Snapshot
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I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded like the Tonebone. It has become an incredible asset to my sound and I recommend this to anyone who is looking for that NATURAL warm sound with sustain for days and days! Buy this now!
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Etc
Gadgets
Sound
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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.
Steve Lukather / Guitarist
Middle
Notes
Speakers
Album
Discuss
Record
Sit
Stereo
Whoever
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