Steve Cropper Quotes

#1. 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

#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. Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.

Blake Lively

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

Steve Cropper

#5. My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid

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

Steve Cropper

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

Steve Cropper

#8. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. 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

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

Steve Cropper

#11. 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

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

Steve Cropper

#13. 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

#14. Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#15. 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

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

Steve Cropper

#17. 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

#18. And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.

Ali Smith

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

Steve Cropper