Cropper Quotes

#1. For my grandfather

Quote from "INCUBUS"

The genealogical table is an important branch of life, and whether life's hand is bitter or sweet, it must be treated delicately.
- C.L. Cropper

Cheryl L. Cropper

#2. I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.

Robbie Robertson

#3. I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

Donald Dunn

#4. I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

E. M. Forster

#5. People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Sydney J. Harris

#6. I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

Steve Cropper

#7. Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

Steve Cropper

#8. My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

Steve Cropper

#9. I do not even know what a matrix is," Heisenberg complained to Jordan. As

William H. Cropper

#10. It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Wendell Berry

#11. Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

Steve Cropper

#12. If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

Steve Cropper

#13. Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

Bell Hooks

#14. Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

Steve Cropper

#15. Keep On Keeping On with God

Terry Hueffed

#16. I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

Steve Cropper

#17. We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'

Tahar Rahim

#18. Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would want to hurt him, and what is more, he knew that no one could hurt him. This was for him an axiom, assumed once and for all without question. And he went his way without hesitation, relying on it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.

Steve Cropper

#20. It is not about what you like, it is about what life demands. It is the demand of life and you must supply it.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

Jonah Lehrer

#22. I own all 7 seasons of 'The Golden Girls.'

Conrad Ricamora

#23. I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.

Ted Dekker

#24. I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

Steve Cropper

#25. I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.

Kathleen Sebelius

#26. An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Niels Bohr

#27. I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

Steve Cropper

#28. Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

Julianna Baggott

#29. In my darkest hour she answered my call without resentment or guilt, without hesitation

Poppet

#30. You have a foul mouth. And to think you kiss your children with it." "According to my mates, my mouth is perfect. And there's nothing dirty about telling the truth.

Eve Langlais

#31. I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

Steve Cropper

#32. Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

Steve Cropper