Donald Dunn Quotes

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.