Quotes by Steve Cropper

• 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.
• Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
• 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.
• I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
• I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.
• Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
• Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.
• Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
• 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.