Steve Cropper Quotes

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

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• Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

  

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• Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

  

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• It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

  

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• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

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• I wanted to be a professional drummer.

  

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• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

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• If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'

  

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• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

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• The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

  

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• I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.

  

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• Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

  

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• We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

  

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• So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

  

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• There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

  

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• They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

  

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• My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.

  

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• Its like Dr. Doolittle in this fucking house here.

  

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• I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.

  

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• People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.

  

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• We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...

  

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• An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.

  

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• String theory is extremely attractive because gravity is forced upon us. All known consistent string theories include gravity, so while gravity is impossible in quantum field theory as we have known it, it is obligatory in string theory.

  

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

  

  Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • House
  • Drummer
  • Sticks