Steve Porcaro Quotes

My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the road 200 days a year.

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I'd like to do be a bit of guitar with them guys. I'll play on anyone's record to be honest with you.

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

As a journeyman singer, I have to go to where the work is.

As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.

When you are a freelancer, you are always looking for a next job. There is always struggle.

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking and presenting myself as an artist that's commercially sellable led to me meeting the right people, which in turn led to them givin' me positive referrals to other people, which in turn led to me signin' a deal.

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting.