Chris Stapleton Quotes

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.