Chris Stapleton

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

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still…

— Chris Stapleton

I get tired of people trying to dog out the radio for not playing this or that. There are lots of people…

— Chris Stapleton

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

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

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see…

— Chris Stapleton

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,…

— 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…

— Chris Stapleton

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

— Chris Stapleton

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

— 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…

— Chris Stapleton

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record…

— Chris Stapleton

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit…

— 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…

— 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…

— Chris Stapleton

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

— Chris Stapleton

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

— Chris Stapleton

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime.…

— 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…

— Chris Stapleton

I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel…

— Chris Stapleton

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel…

— Chris Stapleton

I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are…

— Chris Stapleton

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

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

— Chris Stapleton

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