Chris Stapleton quote: "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.'"

I had a beard way before it was fashionable.
CHRIS STAPLETON

We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON

Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing,...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country a...
CHRIS STAPLETON

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

My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o...
CHRIS STAPLETON

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of r...
CHRIS STAPLETON

A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Bi...
CHRIS STAPLETON

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

In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, &...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would p...
CHRIS STAPLETON

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their a...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominat...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON

We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music,...
CHRIS STAPLETON

Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a mon...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has alway...
CHRIS STAPLETON

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

College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. ...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like m...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I alwa...
CHRIS STAPLETON

There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are v...
WALKER STAPLETON

Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with cred...
WALKER STAPLETON

It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Go...
WALKER STAPLETON

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded r...
WALKER STAPLETON

As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not spec...
WALKER STAPLETON

If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless ...
WALKER STAPLETON

That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing...
WALKER STAPLETON

When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co...
WALKER STAPLETON

If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're no...
WALKER STAPLETON

Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state...
WALKER STAPLETON

The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legis...
WALKER STAPLETON

Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servan...
WALKER STAPLETON

Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a ba...
WALKER STAPLETON

When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.
WALKER STAPLETON

I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein.
SULLIVAN STAPLETON

I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how ...
WALKER STAPLETON

Somebody directed that [French] lab to leak samples with [identifying numerical] codes, and that's t...
BILL STAPLETON

That inevitably can be leaked. It's completely irresponsible, and someone's going to have to answer ...
BILL STAPLETON

It's about Lance and his story. It's not about how many people watch the bike race. His endorsement ...
BILL STAPLETON

Film is one of the things that makes Austin cool. I think five years from now, it's something we'll ...
BILL STAPLETON

I started thinking about what I could build in (Austin) that would make it special. We set out with ...
BILL STAPLETON

I was never freaked out about what was going to happen to me. But I always believed in my heart (Arm...
BILL STAPLETON

This guy was on his death bed, and we were more worried about having him live than having him race a...
BILL STAPLETON

But Lance feels he was defamed by The Sunday Times.
BILL STAPLETON

They've put Lance in Pandora's Box. And he can't defend himself.
BILL STAPLETON

The issue is that the codes were attached to anonymous samples. That's where the system broke down.
BILL STAPLETON

That puts him to one step closer for the potential for something catastrophic happening.
BOB STAPLETON

At this point we are putting a plan together and I'm confident it will work.
BOB STAPLETON

There's things I listen for Nick, in his voice. I want to hear his mood. Even though he's 27 years o...
BOB STAPLETON

There is a very strong wireless system out there.
BOB STAPLETON

There was a misunderstanding with France and the French,
CRAIG STAPLETON

It is true that our two governments have economic and political disagreements, but the coordination ...
CRAIG STAPLETON

No doubts, no expectations, just together.
ZOE STAPLETON

We believe this framework will enable Royal Mail to invest in the business, meet its obligations to ...
NIGEL STAPLETON

have the same values and the same interests.
CRAIG STAPLETON

There was a misunderstanding with France and the French, ... sure that all that is behind us.
CRAIG STAPLETON

We love what we're doing.
FERN STAPLETON

We can ride somewhere together for two hours and not say a word. But it's a very comfortable silence...
FERN STAPLETON

This happens all the time. It's nice to see people from your past.
FERN STAPLETON

I do the dipping. And take care of the money.
FERN STAPLETON

Jim was the first full-time Bracken County state trooper.
FERN STAPLETON

I'm so tired when I climb into bed at night, I fall right asleep.
FERN STAPLETON

It was human error. Someone didn't realize they shouldn't process that grant, and unfortunately they...
MARK STAPLETON

In this instance, the kids are correct.
MARK STAPLETON

Things like picking the music are gas. If there's a dispute over two songs we vote on it, and usuall...
MAGGIE STAPLETON

But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people. Lots of colors appear when you're workin...
JEAN STAPLETON

The reason I'm in this play and taking a tour and the box office is doing very well is that I'm well...
JEAN STAPLETON

In the theatre, it's a craft and you're going from beginning to end and you experience the whole flo...
JEAN STAPLETON

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need...
RUTH CARTER STAPLETON

When the sun rises in the morning and sets in the night. When the moon comes into sight from the eas...
CHRIS

Love that never stoped. That grew with each tear drop, with each fight. With endless nights talking ...
CHRIS

Only true love will make it through the wicked world.
CHRIS

Curiosity killed the cat, then it came back eight more times to try it again.
CHRIS

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
CHRIS ROCK

Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Tr...
CHRIS RIDDELL

I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin...
CHRIS PINE

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.
CHRIS JERICHO

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, &#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. An...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Strong female leads are important.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It'...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I'm for comfort, not for style.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I like to explore things.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it&#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hamm...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a mi...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd n...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for ot...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a cer...
CHRIS PINE

I've always been the type of guy that wants to change, adapt and morph from year to year.
CHRIS JERICHO

If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
CHRIS ROCK

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying ...
CHRIS ROCK

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the res...
CHRIS ROCK

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.
CHRIS ROCK

Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Ro...
CHRIS ROCK

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.
CHRIS ROCK

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjo...
CHRIS ROCK

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at th...
CHRIS ROCK

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with s...
CHRIS ROCK

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star o...
CHRIS ROCK

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
CHRIS ROCK

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
CHRIS ROCK

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'C...
CHRIS ROCK

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whol...
CHRIS ROCK

Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, ...
CHRIS ROCK

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she'...
CHRIS ROCK

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver cou...
CHRIS ROCK

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except...
CHRIS CORNELL

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
CHRIS LOWE

I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes...
CHRIS ROCK

There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL

The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can su...
CHRIS FUSSELL

I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because...
CHRIS PINE

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen,...
CHRIS EVANS

I don't appreciate Internet cyber bullying at all. It's not fair. With me, it gets hard beca...
CHRIS STOKES

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that rea...
CHRIS PINE

It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo...
CHRIS MILK

It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with tha...
CHRIS ROCK

We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premise...
CHRIS PAVONE

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes ba...
CHRIS PINE

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go...
CHRIS O'DOWD

I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I ha...
CHRIS MESSINA

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to ...
CHRIS PINE

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
CHRIS FUSSELL

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, act...
CHRIS JERICHO

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spande...
CHRIS JERICHO

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr...
CHRIS EVANS

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio...
CHRIS CORNELL

I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I sti...
CHRIS LOWELL

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a...
CHRIS CORNELL

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also...
CHRIS HEDGES

Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his a...
CHRIS HEDGES

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power ...
CHRIS HEDGES

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a bas...
CHRIS EVANS

I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Ex...
CHRIS SACCA

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ...
CHRIS BROWN

I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so ...
CHRIS HARDWICK

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most s...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle...
CHRIS PRATT

I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I...
CHRIS SACCA

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
CHRIS HART

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community co...
CHRIS ROCK

We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN

Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite w...
CHRIS SACCA

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don'...
CHRIS PINE

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find my...
CHRIS LEDOUX

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tel...
CHRIS PINE

China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting ...
CHRIS SMITH

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It'...
CHRIS CARTER

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right...
CHRIS ELLIOTT

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think m...
CHRIS KATTAN

2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bun...
CHRIS SACCA

I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up t...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionate...
CHRIS HADFIELD

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ...
CHRIS MARTIN

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many ...
CHRIS PAVONE

I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's ...
CHRIS RIDDELL

Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, ...
CHRIS KILHAM

2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually u...
CHRIS LARSEN

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And th...
CHRIS EVANS

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because eve...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted t...
CHRIS WEDGE

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
CHRIS PRATT

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers...
CHRIS CHOCOLA

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d...
CHRIS LOWE

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really...
CHRIS CORNELL

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actor...
CHRIS MESSINA

It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shir...
CHRIS SQUIRE

If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everyt...
CHRIS JERICHO

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1...
CHRIS ANDERSON

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu...
CHRIS MATTHEWS

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS

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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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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