Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void.… — 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
Growing up in a bluegrass or acoustic-oriented world, the musicians become so focused on performance, as far as playing. We tend to… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I think what people call genre is just a question of orchestration. So, for instance, with Punch Brothers, you look at that… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important. — 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 Image
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 Image
Like a sporting event, live events are the one thing you can't have anytime you want them. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
