Chris Stapleton Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a monumental piece of rock & roll. It makes you feel exactly like rock & roll is supposed to make you feel.
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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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If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.
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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 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 had a beard way before it was fashionable.
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I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.
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Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.
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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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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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At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be.
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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 don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.
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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 am always interested in making myself as uncomfortable as I can. Sometimes I ask myself, 'Can I stand onstage and sing this song and sell it?' Sometimes I can't. In a room, you get to pretend a little bit and step outside of yourself.
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There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because that's what songs are for.
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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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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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The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that would make me want to write.