Chris Stapleton Quotes

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Chris Stapleton

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 15, 1978

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

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

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.

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

I had a beard way before it was fashionable.

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

Chris Stapleton

I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.

Chris Stapleton

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

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

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

Chris Stapleton

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

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

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.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

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

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton