Top 61 Stapleton Quotes
#1. Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire.
Jimmy Hill
#2. Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage
RZA
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
Chris Stapleton
#7. I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.
Chris Stapleton
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
Chris Stapleton
#11. Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.
Chris Stapleton
#13. But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people.
Jean Stapleton
#14. 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
#15. I never believed I'd have a six-pack, especially not at 35 years old. I always thought it was a genetic blessing. It's not. You just have to be willing to do what it takes.
Sullivan Stapleton
#16. I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.
Chris Stapleton
#17. On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
Jean Stapleton
#18. Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.
Jean Stapleton
#19. Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Ruth Carter Stapleton
#20. We have to remember Damien Duff is one of the most good players in the Premiership
Frank Stapleton
#21. I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.
Chris Stapleton
#22. Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.
Chris Stapleton
#23. 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.'
Chris Stapleton
#24. It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.
Chris Stapleton
#25. I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.
Chris Stapleton
#27. 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
#28. The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.
Jean Stapleton
#29. As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.
Chris Stapleton
#30. I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.
Chris Stapleton
#31. I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.
Chris Stapleton
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.
Chris Stapleton
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. He's got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.
Frank Stapleton
#47. 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
#48. Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.
Jean Stapleton
#49. I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
Chris Stapleton
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#55. Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
Chris Stapleton
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
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