Mr Stapleton Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.

Chris Stapleton

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.

Chris Stapleton

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

Chris Stapleton

#8. Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

Ruth Carter Stapleton

#9. First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

Jean Stapleton

#10. I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.

Chris Stapleton

#11. Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage

RZA

#12. God is good, but God is also just.

Miss Stapleton

#13. 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

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

Chris Stapleton

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. He's got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.

Frank Stapleton

#18. 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

#19. Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire.

Jimmy Hill

#20. My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Dennis Christopher

#21. I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.

Chris Stapleton

#22. I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.

Maureen Stapleton

#23. 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

#24. 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.

Chris Stapleton

#25. 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

#26. I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein.

Sullivan Stapleton

#27. 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

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

Chris Stapleton

#29. The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Chris Stapleton

#30. I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

Chris Stapleton