Steve Cropper Quotes (15 Quotes)

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

I am a very lucky guy. I've had a great career and I still get to do it and get to hang out with all these wonderful people. It's just a blast.

I started getting calls to do sessions as a guitarist. I never thought I was that good of a guitarist, though I knew I could hold my own.

I believe in technology going forward. I do like to work with an engineer, but I know how to run Pro Tools, and I have a system in my own studio.

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.

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.

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

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

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

They had been doing their Jake and Elwood Blues thing as a warm-up for the audience before the show, and the audiences loved it.

I went from the really crude way we had of recording in Memphis to working with the top engineers and technologies in Los Angeles.

I'm totally in support of having single-family occupancy here in Oak Hill. I'm still trying to understand the rest of this.

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

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.

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