Chris Stapleton Quotes

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred spirits or something.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings people together, levels the playing field and opens people up.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Music is important.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.