The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time. — 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Ever since I became better acquainted with classical music, I've wanted to try my hand at longer forms, but I could never… — 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
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
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
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 just love getting as many experiences making music for and with people as possible. — 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
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
