My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me. — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone. — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music. — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them.… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can. — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I get tired of people trying to dog out the radio for not playing this or that. There are lots of people who like… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I didn't have any expectations with 'Traveller' - I don't think anybody did. That's how I prefer the process to be. — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me. — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it. — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
