Chris Stapleton Quotes
My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
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That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
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My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.
