Steve Cropper Quotes

• 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

  Littles, Jars, Sam Cooke

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

  Steve Cropper

  Guy, Stuff, Likes

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

  Steve Cropper

  Years, Lucky, Maps

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• 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

  Block, Guy, Brain

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

  Steve Cropper

  Years, Cartoon, Years Ago

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• 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

  Boards, Gone, Demand

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

  Steve Cropper

  Country, Missouri, Raised

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

  Steve Cropper

  Months, Hospitality, Hotel

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

  Steve Cropper

  House, Memphis, Sticks

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• 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

  Running, Digital, Mixing

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