Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Stapleton - Page 2

I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.

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.

I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

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.

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.

I want the dude in the top row to feel like he's down there on the front row in a club.

The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something almost every time. That's them being an artist, and you appreciate it more over time.

I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.

I can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.

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.

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.

My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.

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.

I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.

I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.

I don't think country music needs saving from anything.

I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.

I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.

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.

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.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I don't make records to win awards. I make records to make records and hopefully make the records as good as they can be.

I didn't have any expectations with 'Traveller' - I don't think anybody did. That's how I prefer the process to be.

I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

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.

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.

I think it's OK if somebody likes my music and likes Sam Hunt's music, too. And I think if we're both selling records, it's good for everybody. I think it allows other records to get made.

Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really off in folk, poetry Americana land, it's all just music, man. If you like one of them, great - go buy it.

I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.

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.

I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.

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.

I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.

I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.

My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car.

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.

I was a car salesman, if you can believe it.

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.

America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.

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.

I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.

I don't try to approach things any differently, songwriting-wise, regardless of what I'm doing. I try to write whatever the best thing is that I'm doing that day. If I'm working on a pop song, I'm working on a pop song to the best of my ability. If I'm working on a bluegrass song, it's the same thing. They're not really different parts of the brain.

Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.