65 Quotes by Steven Curtis Chapman

Country music is just country. It’s going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.

Will You help me hear the song You’re singing over all this noise?

I think we all want to know that if our lives don’t turn out the way we imagine, there’s still a purpose.

I’ve been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

I’ve always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there’s one who’s great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can’t believe.

There’s obviously always danger in making music or art for art’s sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

Everything we’re singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it’s still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.