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 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
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
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
The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time. — 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 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'd say playing with a group or playing solo are equally rewarding, but in a different way. — 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
