No one wants to hear me doing my best Garrison Keillor... I think that he's inimitable; he's one in a billion. — 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
New York will make you feel small. I think that's good. At least, it's good for me. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I think that we'll see the concept of 'genre' continue to die a slow and painful death. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, I think one has to take reviews with a grain of salt, unless you know who the person is and… — 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… — 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
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
There's something about a variety show, I think, that disarms us as consumers of something. We're laughing, and there's this sense of… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Hats off to musicians who just want a pure escape. I have a lot of fondness for pure escapism. I don't feel… — 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
