A biography for Chris Stapletonhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.”
“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.”
“I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'”
“I'm not reinventing the wheel here. I'm not Chuck Berry or Bill Monroe. Guys like that are from outer space.”
“I always just try to write the best songs that I can at any given time, and sometimes those songs are for me, and sometimes they're for other people. And that's to be evaluated after the fact.”
“My wife has great taste in everything but men. The vast majority of the songs on my debut album, 'Traveller,' came from lists she made.”
“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.”
“It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.”
“My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.”
“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.”
“I was a car salesman, if you can believe it.”
“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.”
“I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.”
“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.”
“I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.”
“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.”
“I didn't have any expectations with 'Traveller' - I don't think anybody did. That's how I prefer the process to be.”
“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.”
“I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.”
“America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.”