Chris Stapleton Quotes

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I make the kind of music I like.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

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.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

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.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.