A biography for Steve Lukatherhasn’t been written yet.
“Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.”
“To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.”
“When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.”
“In sports, stats count. Music? Not so much.”
“I'm always writing music.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We always felt it helped during live shows to have multiple lead singers to give our voices a break.”
“We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?”
“I wish I had perfect pitch, but I don't, and thanks to the miracle of YouTube, a bad night lives forever!”
“I don't question things when they're going right.”
“There's no such thing as a lead singer in our band.”
“As a session player for so many years, I have found myself in rooms looking around going, 'Is this for real?'”
“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.”
“I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.”
“I worked with Paul McCartney, and he was lovely.”
“I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'”
“Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.”
“'Rosanna' was the hit, but 'Africa' resonated with everyone who heard it.”