Chris Stapleton Quotes
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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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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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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 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 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 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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If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make 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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My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.
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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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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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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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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 like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.
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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 places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.
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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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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 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 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.