My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
There are two genres of music: there's good music and there's bad music. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words. — 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
Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience. — 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
Really the greatest music I've ever heard I've hated the first time I heard it. It's been abrasive at first; it's been… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I think there's probably really wonderful music that has been lost due to the lack of preservation methods way back in the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The goal of serious musicians is to play outside of yourself. That's most likely with people who suggest things that are outside… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
You need to put yourself in the way of the music that stood the test of time. You're doing yourself an incredible… — 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 people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I'm always excited about music, but having spent so much time in its pursuit - well, my musical life is complicated. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
It's like wine and food, or coffee and a pastry - coffee's awesome and a chocolate croissant is awesome, and together, they're… — 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
For me, music always leads. Lyrics are only about how they sing. It is wonderful if they read well, too. In the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
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've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
For years, my actual listening activity has been governed by what I perceived to be good for me as a musician, almost… — 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… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The constructive criticism that I take very seriously is from people I know and respect, and they don't have to be musicians.… — 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… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of… — 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 can't listen to music while I'm doing something else. Well, unless I'm working out. But I, like, fall off the treadmill… — 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
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
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 just love getting as many experiences making music for and with people as possible. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The world's music is at our fingertips, so if we like music, we kind of owe it to ourselves to check in… — 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
In my mind, there's this one 'super genre,' which is the only genre that matters, and that's the super genre of good… — 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'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as… — 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
