Chris Stapleton Quotes
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I get tired of people trying to dog out the radio for not playing this or that. There are lots of people who like what they play - otherwise, they wouldn't play it.
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My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car.
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I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.
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We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.
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I didn't have any expectations with 'Traveller' - I don't think anybody did. That's how I prefer the process to be.
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I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.
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I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.
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I don't make records to win awards. I make records to make records and hopefully make the records as good as they can be.
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I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'
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I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
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I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.
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I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.
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It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process.
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
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I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.
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Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really off in folk, poetry Americana land, it's all just music, man. If you like one of them, great - go buy it.
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I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.
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I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.
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I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.
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In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, 'Look over here! Look over there,' we don't really take the time to sit down and enjoy music - or anything else, for that matter.
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I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.
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If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.
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I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.
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I think it's OK if somebody likes my music and likes Sam Hunt's music, too. And I think if we're both selling records, it's good for everybody. I think it allows other records to get made.