Chris Stapleton Quotes

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.

Our band is rock n' roll. We were never just a studio band trying to make everything perfect. It was never supposed to be perfect. It was supposed to be cool.

That's why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.

Everything is so computerized these days and it's all edited and everything. Everything sounds so perfect, and we just want to be a band that sounds like a band.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

I love being on stage more than anything, and I think that's what comes across. I think the most honest representation of any music is to play it right there in front of people. It's a moment - it's all one of a kind, every little part of it. There's no repeat.

The greatest records in the world were made without going to Auto-tune or Pro Tools, or having some click track. If they could do it, why can't we? Something's been lost in music. It's all been over-produced, squashed down, totally compressed.

I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their emotions.

A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had goofs and mistakes, but it still kept its charm. We have to remember to keep the feel. It's so important.

I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that than guitar and piano.

There's something about real music, dawg. It comes to you; you don't have to go to it.