Quotes by Steve Porcaro - Page 1

We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
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Garage
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Jeff was the coolest, hippest older brother I could ever dream for.
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Brother
Older Brother
Coolest
Jeff
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If it's an evening with Toto, that usually means there's no opening act.
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Evening
Opening
Opening Act
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There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.
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Pop Culture
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Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
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Vocal
To Be Honest
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Jeff and Mike had taken drum lessons at a young age. When the Beatles came out in '64, we all wanted to play guitar.
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Lessons
Mike
Taken
Young Age
Drum
Jeff
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It was a lot of insensitivity, especially as maybe as far as the 'Africa' video goes. But the song was about a fantasy.
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Insensitivity
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We listened to 'Beverly Hills.' I wanted to maybe even do a real 'Africa'-type version of that, I was thinking about for a minute.
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Beverly Hills
Beverly
Listened
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I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us, and it's always a great hang.
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Mcdonald
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Session work is not a steady thing at all. You do eight of them in one week and then go three months without any. That's the way it really is.
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Session
Steady
Work Way Three
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But Toto is something that's very near and dear to me, and we feel so fortunate and blessed to have been able to have a career playing music for all this time.
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Dear
Time Music Me
Near
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Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.
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Lightning
Capturing
Huge Part
Jeff
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Art was a huge passion of Jeff's from a very early age. He took a few lessons one summer. He always had a huge passion for art. Loved Dali. Jeff drew and sketched constantly.
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Lessons
Passion
Summer
Dali
Drew
Early Age
Jeff
Very Early Age
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We just want to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. Be true to ourselves and make the best music we can. Entertain people which is what we were put on this Earth for.
Steve Porcaro /
Best Music People
Version
Be True
Entertain
Entertain People
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I look over and Mike's not there, I hear the drums and know it isn't Jeff. I guess there is some survivor's guilt, but I'm happy to be here every day, still doing what I love most.
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Guilt
Mike
Love Look Day
Jeff
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When I did my solo album, I put on a song that I'd planned for Toto that never made an album constructed from a great drum track with Jeff and a bass track with Mike and the guys loved it.
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Mike
Solo
Track
Album
Constructed
Drum
Jeff
Planned
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Although he loved performing live, and was great at it - Jeff was as solid on stage, as he was in the studio - performing for two hours at a stretch really took a physical toll. It was very hard on him.
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Jeff
Solid
Stretch
Toll
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