Chris Stapleton Quotes

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

Find your own style, whatever it is. Whatever is inside you, bring that out. I think that's when you have something unique.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I don't feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can't.

You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself if you're worried about what other people think.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

My style is all to myself.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you as a vessel.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.