Steve Cropper Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts. — Steve Cropper

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

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month. — Steve Cropper

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great. — Steve Cropper

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

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

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

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