Chris Stapleton Quotes

I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of passion and a lot of attention to detail, right?

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

I don't listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end product.

It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

I have so much music to release, but I'm meticulous. I'm like, "You've got to redo that part, redo that part." And people are like, "Just forget that and go ahead with it." But it's all about perfection, about trying to make it as good as you can.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.