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Chris Stapleton Quotes

We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues – all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It’s fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.

– Chris Stapleton

I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you’re at.

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton

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.’

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton

I’m a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it’s like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton

I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.

– Chris Stapleton

I don’t look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They’re all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it’s part of mine.

– Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

– Chris Stapleton

In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything’s so fast paced and it’s, ‘Look over here! Look over there,’ we don’t really take the time to sit down and enjoy music – or anything else, for that matter.

– Chris Stapleton

I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.

– Chris Stapleton

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they’re going to label it.

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton

At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it’s gonna be.

– Chris Stapleton

A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There’s a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There’s a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.

– Chris Stapleton

We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things – maybe not as much in modern times, but there’s a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton

I always tell people, ‘The music’s free. I get paid to travel.’

– Chris Stapleton

I’m always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.

– Chris Stapleton

I like songs that make me feel tough. Like ‘Back in Black.’ You want to hear it again and get in a fight.

– Chris Stapleton

My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton

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.

– Chris Stapleton