Top 35 Chris Daughtry Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m living my dream now.”

— Chris Daughtry

2. “I’m looking to see what the bigger picture is.”

— Chris Daughtry

3. “You have to think there’s a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.”

— Chris Daughtry

4. “I don’t want to say I can’t wait to get back to normal life, because I don’t. I don’t want to get back to normal life.”

— Chris Daughtry

5. “If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don’t know you.”

— Chris Daughtry

6. “I do belong on stage.”

— Chris Daughtry

7. “What I do doesn’t sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don’t have a cool card, but I also don’t have thin skin.”

— Chris Daughtry

8. “I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.”

— Chris Daughtry

9. “I just like music. If it’s hookey and good, I dig it.”

— Chris Daughtry

10. “For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they’re interested in something, I want them to try it out.”

— Chris Daughtry

11. “My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.”

— Chris Daughtry

12. “For me, something will come in my head and I’ll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I’ll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn’t. So there’s really no set method behind it.”

— Chris Daughtry

13. “It doesn’t matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren’t supporting it and buying your music, it’s hard to make it.”

— Chris Daughtry

14. “Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.”

— Chris Daughtry

15. “As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.”

— Chris Daughtry

16. “Maybe some people thought I was ‘safe’ so they didn’t really bothered to vote for me at all.”

— Chris Daughtry

17. “The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They’re the ones too high to sing every night – not that you’ll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.”

— Chris Daughtry

18. “Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.”

— Chris Daughtry

19. “My son’s taking drum lessons, and my daughter’s taking piano lessons. One day they’re going to start a band.”

— Chris Daughtry

20. “When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.”

— Chris Daughtry

21. “My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.”

— Chris Daughtry

22. “You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.”

— Chris Daughtry

23. “I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.”

— Chris Daughtry

24. “I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it’s more fun to go out and perform live, because it’s like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.”

— Chris Daughtry

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25. “Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.”

— Chris Daughtry

26. “For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, ‘I want to write right now.’ It has to just kind of come out. It’s not something you can plan.”

— Chris Daughtry

27. “I’m not ashamed of selling millions of records. I’m very fortunate to be in that position.”

— Chris Daughtry

28. “I was always in bands before, but on ‘American Idol,’ it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.”

— Chris Daughtry

29. “In the ’90s, guitar solos were dead.”

— Chris Daughtry

30. “I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band and not be about the solo pop guy. That was never me. All of the musicians that made me do what I wanted to do were bands. I didn’t see it any other way.”

— Chris Daughtry

31. “I don’t want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?”

— Chris Daughtry

32. “If I win, I’ll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she’s happy then I’ll be happy.”

— Chris Daughtry

33. “I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.”

— Chris Daughtry

34. “There’s going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don’t think I could really talk about them.”

— Chris Daughtry

35. “I’d like to be a piano player.”

— Chris Daughtry