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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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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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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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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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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If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.
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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 can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.
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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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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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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 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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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'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 can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
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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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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 want the dude in the top row to feel like he's down there on the front row in a club.
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I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.