Steve Forbert
Steve Forbert
Samuel Stephen "Steve" Forbert is an American pop music singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached No. 11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980, and is ranked as the 60th biggest American hit of 1980. The song also spent two weeks at No. 8 in Canada, and is ranked as the 47th biggest Canadian hit of 1980. In Australia it reached No. 13...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth13 December 1955
CountryUnited States of America
great ideas
I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.
hero walt
My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.
shows songs
It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.
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You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.
envisioned exactly goes
As you get out and try to do things, you always find that in order to make an idea a reality, it goes through some changes. It doesn't always come out exactly like you envisioned it.
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My priority doesn't lie with the whole website and Facebook and such; I'm still walking down the road in a pair of real shoes. You need to just play as much as you can. Get in front of people, as I've always said. It doesn't matter if it's ten people at an open mic or opening a show for someone. Play all the time.
call course hopefully mark might music trying
I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.
people
You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.
music since traveling
I've been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver's license.
gonna
I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.
lucrative
I haven't had the most lucrative career. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm a one-hit wonder.
knack people songs tribute
I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.
songs
For as long as I'm able to write songs and sing them, it's just about making them ones I feel proud to sing again and again.
music truthful
Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.