Steve Cropper Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.”
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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.”
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“Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.”
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“Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.”
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“I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.”
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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.”
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“I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.”
-- Steve Cropper
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