Chris Stapleton Quotes

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person.

I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.

I'm not just a rapper. I like to produce music.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.