Zitat des Tages von Steven Curtis Chapman:
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
This is life we've been given, made to be lived out, so... live out loud.
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.
I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.
I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.
I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.
