Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Steve Cropper.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Steven Lee Cropper, sometimes known as "The Colonel", is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. He also acted as the producer of many of these records. He was later a member of the Blues Brothers band. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 36th on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, while he has won two Grammy Awards from his seven nominations.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
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'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.
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.
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.
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.
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'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
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.