Chris Stapleton Quotes
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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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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'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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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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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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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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If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.
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I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.
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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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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 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 like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.
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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 don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.
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I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.
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I think, at some point, all of us - I'm gonna speak personally, not for everybody else - you're gonna feel like a one-trick pony, and you might even be a one-trick pony. But at some point, if it's a really good trick, everybody's still gonna appreciate it.
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If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that makes somebody else happy, how is that a bad thing? I don't get why anybody cares about what they don't like so much.
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College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who was a songwriter, which I didn't realize was a real job.
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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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I always just try to write the best songs that I can at any given time, and sometimes those songs are for me, and sometimes they're for other people. And that's to be evaluated after the fact.