Chris Stapleton Quotes

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Nothing wrong with pop!

I think the people who are sitting in their living room doing those, 'Let's take country music back' blogs and all that stuff, that's crazy to me. No one's saying that about rock & roll, and no one sounded like the Beatles since 1960. No one says that about R&B, and no one sounded like the Commodores since 1970.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.