Mr Stapleton Quotes & Sayings

Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously. — Chris Stapleton

If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else. — Chris Stapleton

We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive. — Chris Stapleton

Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire. — Jimmy Hill

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond. — Jean Stapleton

I always just try to write the best songs that I can at any given time, and sometimes those songs are for me, and sometimes they're for other people. And that's to be evaluated after the fact. — Chris Stapleton

I'd like to thank everyone I've met in my life. — Maureen Stapleton

I do a job. I get paid. I go home. — Maureen Stapleton

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible. — Maureen Stapleton

Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things ... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic. — Ruth Carter Stapleton

You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that. — Chris Stapleton

I've always been in touring bands in some capacity. — Chris Stapleton

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path. — Chris Stapleton

Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an amount would be necessary to kill you.and it's natural.Calling something NATURAL is a MEANINGLESS MARKETING PLOY."
"All right,calm down! Maybe I like alternative medicine because it's been in use for more than six thousand years.After all that time,they have to know what they're doing."
"You mean the wacky idea that somehow in the distant past people had more scientific wisdom than they do today?That's both crazy and counterintuitive.Six thousand years ago people thought thunder was a bunch of gods moving around furniture."
-Conversation btw Dr.Jack Stapleton and Vinnie — Robin Cook

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives. — Jean Stapleton

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue. — Sullivan Stapleton

I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight. — Chris Stapleton

At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be. — Chris Stapleton

My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy. — Chris Stapleton

I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein. — Sullivan Stapleton

It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places. — Chris Stapleton

He's got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee. — Frank Stapleton

My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film. — Sullivan Stapleton

As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody. — Chris Stapleton

A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music. — Chris Stapleton

I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine. — Chris Stapleton

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it. — Chris Stapleton

I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks. — Sullivan Stapleton

I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer. — Chris Stapleton

I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there. — Chris Stapleton