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

- Steve Cropper

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 …

- Steve Cropper

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

- Steve Cropper

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.

- Steve Cropper

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

- Steve Cropper

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

- Steve Cropper

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

- Steve Cropper

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

- Steve Cropper

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 yo…

- Steve Cropper