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" I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, 'I'm thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.' And I looked him right in the eye and said, 'Man, you've got the wrong guy. I'm gonna have to fire myself. You've got to hire somebody else.' "

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" 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

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Hat

" I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun. "

" Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up. "

Chris Stapleton

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" I don't feel like songs should be hoarded. I don't feel like one's tainted if somebody else does it. That's the mark of artistry - take a song that's maybe even a really popular song and do it your own way. I think that's cool. "

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

" I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for. "

" I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.' "

" I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise. "

" In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, 'Look over here! Look over there,' we don't really take the time to sit down and enjoy music - or anything else, for that matter. "

" I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head. "

" I had a beard way before it was fashionable. "

" I can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot. "

" I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer. "

Chris Stapleton

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" Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know. "

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

" Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket. "

" Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however that gets accomplished for different people, it's all good. "

" As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody. "

" Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone. "

" I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville. "

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

" I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at. "

" I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can. "

" My wife has great taste in everything but men. The vast majority of the songs on my debut album, 'Traveller,' came from lists she made. "