Steven Curtis Chapman Quotes

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.
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'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.
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.
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.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.
I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.
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.
I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.
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 did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.
I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.
I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.
If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.
I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.
What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.
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