Chris Stapleton Quotes

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.

With so many genres, music is so diverse, which is why it is an exciting thing to do in life.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

The great love of my life is music.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

I lived for music since I could think.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

I wanted 'Second Sky' to be my way of recommending truly good music to my audience that I think is worthy of their time.

I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.

Music was never an obligation for me; from a very young age, I understood it as a moment of freedom where you could express yourself. I realized how much joy it could bring and how much that meant to me.