Steve Lukather Quotes

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

My father would make record after record, and he'd be so surprised at what would sell and what wouldn't.

There's no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, 'OK, I'm going to model my ascent based on this other person's,' luck and timing play such a big part that it's really futile.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

I never thought in a million years I would be in a girl group, so I can't look too deep into the future.

What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

My career has been as clear as a crystal.

You don't know where your career is going to take you. It might all go wrong and I might never play in a Masters again. So it's important to keep things real.

I want to concentrate on my career and would like to scale greater heights.

Putting yourself in a position to observe and work with the pros, whether you are paid or not, is key to helping you make the kinds of strides that set you out in front of the pack.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

If anyone had said that they knew their show was going to run for 15 years, you'd say you're out of your mind.

A guy like me, it's probably pretty hard for somebody to pinpoint what position to have me do, where to put me all the time.

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.

In NBA anything is possible.

I'm not sure if career can be planned.

When you shoot a special, you have no idea what's going to happen, and the fact that I got to do the first one with Comedy Dynamics was a roll of the dice. It was a game changer for me professionally.

I am really thankful for my career.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I had this fantasy vision of what a career as a musician was like. And then I grew up and actually got in the business and realized, it doesn't often work that way.

You never know the way your career takes.

I learned a lot from my career.