Cropper Quotes & Sayings

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman

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 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

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

All his life, at every moment, Tolstoy possessed the faculty of seeing phenomena in the detached finality of each separate instant, in perfectly distinct outline, as we see only on rare occasions, in childhood, or on the crest of an all-renewing happiness, or in the triumph of a great spiritual victory.

To see things like that, our eye must be directed by passion. For it is passion that by its flash illuminates an object, intensifying its appearance.

Such passion, the passion of creative contemplation, Tolstoy constantly carried with him. It was precisely in its light that he saw everything in its pristine freshness, in a new way, as if for the first time. The authenticity of what he saw differs so much from what we are used to that it may appear strange to us. But Tolstoy was not seeking that strangeness, was not pursuing it as a goal, still less did he apply it to his works as a literary method. — Boris Pasternak

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

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

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

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

'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously. — David Alan Grier

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

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

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not. — Oliver Sacks

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

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

I do not even know what a matrix is," Heisenberg complained to Jordan. As — William H. Cropper

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

Another girl? That's awesome Shea. What are you guys going to name her, Sheanana? — Toni Aleo

I'd like to have James Brown as my singer. I already have the best drummer, Tommy Clufetos. I've jammed a bunch with John Entwistle, and it was like a musical orgy. That guy is a living, breathing, grunting rhythm. For horns, let's go with the Stax/Volt guys, and I'm going to have Steve Cropper on standby just in case I want a rhythm guitarist. — Ted Nugent

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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