It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I just love getting as many experiences making music for and with people as possible. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I'm just done downplaying how much I love Radiohead and how massive of an influence they are on what I do, because… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I love the string band. I love the sound of it, the possibilities of it, I love the physical sensation of creating… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I certainly love the bluegrass ensemble, I think it's a powerful tool, but I don't think it's more than a tool. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I love putting on shows. I absolutely adore it - that's why I've been doing it now for so long. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I would love to be one of those fellows who combine formal and folk music approaches. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I'm a massive tennis fan! I love it to bits. I wish I could play, but I am worried that the muscles… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I was two years old when I saw the mandolin for the first time, and I just loved it. I just loved… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I love music with everything I have, and when I am in a front of a classroom talking about music sometimes someone… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
It's very hard to make grand, romantic gestures on a mandolin, and there are times, particularly when playing Bach, that you long… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
My musical output has been consistently acoustic, but my taste has not. I love everything. As long as it's good, I'm in. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
A cocktail and an oyster is an awfully good thing after a park, especially one close to water. — Chris Thile Copy Share
I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it… — Chris Thile Copy Share
Like a sporting event, live events are the one thing you can't have anytime you want them. — Chris Thile Copy Share
Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged. — Chris Thile Copy Share
There's a lot of steps between there not being music and there being music. Composition is one part of that, but if no one… — Chris Thile Copy Share
The fact that I'm a fifth of Punch Brothers... that's lucky for me because I feel like I get to operate in the context… — Chris Thile Copy Share
It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song.… — Chris Thile Copy Share
Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of… — Chris Thile Copy Share
It's very hard to make grand, romantic gestures on a mandolin, and there are times, particularly when playing Bach, that you long for just… — Chris Thile Copy Share
Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us. — Chris Thile Copy Share
Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void. Back in… — Chris Thile Copy Share
It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the… — Chris Thile Copy Share
I think that we'll see the concept of 'genre' continue to die a slow and painful death. — Chris Thile Copy Share
