Chris Stapleton Quotes
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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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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 had a beard way before it was fashionable.
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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 can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.
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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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I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
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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.
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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 fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.
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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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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 don't feel like songs should be hoarded. I don't feel like one's tainted if somebody else does it. That's the mark of artistry - take a song that's maybe even a really popular song and do it your own way. I think that's cool.
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Everybody likes to listen to a song because it's fun, and nobody wants to sit around and listen to 'I-really-have-to-analyze-these-lyrics' songs all the time.
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I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.
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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 don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.
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I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.
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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.
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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 don't see myself as some kind of fightin'-the-good-fight guy. But I always feel like if you don't like one kind of music or the other, it's just not for you.
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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 walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, 'I'm thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.' And I looked him right in the eye and said, 'Man, you've got the wrong guy. I'm gonna have to fire myself. You've got to hire somebody else.'
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You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.