Steve Cropper Quotes

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

I love the magic of the studio.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I love recording music.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

My first love is producing.

I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.

I love DJing, and I love rocking out.