To be able to rub shoulders with kids who have spent their entire lives studying the classics... that's something I need to… — 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
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
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
I'm slow by nature; even if I write something fast, I'll let it sit for a month and hem and haw over… — 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
I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me… — 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
