103 Quotes by Chris Stapleton

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

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

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

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.

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

I think, at some point, all of us - I'm gonna speak personally, not for everybody else - you're gonna feel like a one-trick pony, and you might even be a one-trick pony. But at some point, if it's a really good trick, everybody's still gonna appreciate it.

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.

If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that makes somebody else happy, how is that a bad thing? I don't get why anybody cares about what they don't like so much.

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