Chris Stapleton Quotes
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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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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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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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Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.
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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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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 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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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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Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
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I've always been in touring bands in some capacity.
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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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I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
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My wife has great taste in everything but men. The vast majority of the songs on my debut album, 'Traveller,' came from lists she made.
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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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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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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 don't think country music needs saving from anything.
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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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It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.
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I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.
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The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.
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As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.
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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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I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.