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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
I never was a liner note junkie. I didn’t know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
