Chris Stapleton Quotes

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Chris Stapleton

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 15, 1978

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.

Chris Stapleton

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

Chris Stapleton

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

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

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Chris Stapleton

If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

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 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've always been in touring bands in some capacity.

Chris Stapleton

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

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'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