Chris Stapleton Quotes
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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.
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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 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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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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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 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 only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.
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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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America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.
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I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
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Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.
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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.
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Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.
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I'm not reinventing the wheel here. I'm not Chuck Berry or Bill Monroe. Guys like that are from outer space.
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I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.
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It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.
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I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.
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Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
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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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When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.
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I don't think country music needs saving from anything.
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Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.
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As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.
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I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.