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 consider it a great honor to be part of the dissemination of hearable art. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The great musics of the world are great for very similar structural reasons: good melody, good harmony, and a balance of feminine… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
My favorite bar in New York City is called Milk and Honey, a great cocktail bar. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The great thing about jamming is that you come in with zero preconceptions. Someone might want to play something that suggests something… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I play the mandolin, which people don't often expect great things from. But it has it's charms, and it's my voice. I… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Great music is the only genre that actually matters, and the members of that club are far more similar to each other… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I don't feel that things need make their appeal exclusively to one demographic. I don't feel that there is truly great art… — 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… — 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
