Donald Dunn quotes
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“Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.”
-- Donald DunnSource : "Donald 'Duck' Dunn, Bassist With Booker T. and the MGs, Stax, Dies at 70", www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 13, 2012.
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“When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.”
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“Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.”
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“I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.”
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“I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.”
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“Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.”
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“When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.”
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“Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.”
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“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
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
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“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.”
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Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.
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Source : Interview with Gordon Brown, The Sun, December 11, 2009.
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Source : Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”
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