A biography for Chris Stapletonhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.”
“Everybody gets through a phase where it's, 'Ah, if I could just sound just like Vince Gill.' Then you figure out that you have your own voice, whether you like it or not, and that's what you should stick with.”
“I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.”
“Everybody likes to listen to a song because it's fun, and nobody wants to sit around and listen to 'I-really-have-to-analyze-these-lyrics' songs all the time.”
“I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.”
“I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.”
“It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.”
“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.”
“I had a beard way before it was fashionable.”
“As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.”
“I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.”
“The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.”
“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.”
“Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.”
“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 the other, it's just not for you.”
“I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.”
“I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.”
“I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.”
“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.”