Steve Cropper Quotes
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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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Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
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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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I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.
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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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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 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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I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.
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I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
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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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