Chris Stapleton Quotes
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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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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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We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.
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The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.
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If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.
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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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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 can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.
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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'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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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'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'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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My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.
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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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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 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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I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
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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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I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.
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I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.
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I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.