“I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too c...” — Donald Dunn Quote

“I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.”

“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.”

“Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.”

“I'm like soft Ray Manzarek. I think of the keyboard as almost like a bass or a lead.”

“I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.”

“Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.”