Chris Stapleton Quotes
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Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however that gets accomplished for different people, it's all good.
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If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.
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I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.
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Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.
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I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.
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I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.
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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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I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.
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My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.
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If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.
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A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.
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I can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.
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Everybody gets through a phase where it's, 'Ah, if I could just sound just like Vince Gill.' Then you figure out that you have your own voice, whether you like it or not, and that's what you should stick with.
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It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.
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My favorite record of all time is Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers.' I hold it as the standard - in terms of sonics, sequencing, and songs. It shows that making a complete record is important, rather than just making a single.
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Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.
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I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.
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I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.
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It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.
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I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.
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I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
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For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.
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I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.
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I want the dude in the top row to feel like he's down there on the front row in a club.