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 was two years old when I saw the mandolin for the first time, and I just loved it. I just loved… — 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
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
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
It's very hard to make grand, romantic gestures on a mandolin, and there are times, particularly when playing Bach, that you long… — 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
The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that's expanding all the time is very important. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The radio - this old piece of technology that's still crackingly current - gives you this communal experience in real time. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
People who are happy with their neighborhoods in New York always say the same thing: 'It's such a neighborhood!' And that's how… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I'll often order a cortado and stand there quizzing the poor barista about the extraction time, how much pressure they are applying… — 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
