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.

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.

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.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

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

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.

Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.