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
I just want the opportunity to transcend my personal boundaries and the only way you can do that is by latching on… — 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… — 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 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
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
You know, I look at Twitter as kind of a roomful of people who are interested in what you have to say.… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I went through a political shift when I was nineteen or twenty. I felt a certain way, and after the shift, I… — 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
It's important to allow people to affect you. If we kept that at the forefront of our minds, maybe we wouldn't be… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I didn't have stage parents and sometimes I've envied people who did because I felt like, I guess, I'm compulsively worried I'm… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of… — 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
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
