Minors Quote by Chris Thile Download Open image “I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.” — Chris Thile ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Minors Sonatas Sound
I was two years old when I saw the mandolin for the first time, and I just loved it. I just loved the sound… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
You know there's this really strange mystique about Simon and Garfunkel, when they use the amazing mandolin and all the percussive stuff. It sometimes… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes… — Rita Dove 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
The music that I really jive with is the ELO sound and maybe Wings as well. — Joe Keery Copy Share Image
I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ...… — B. B. King Copy Share
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
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What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie… — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money. — Andy Van Slyke Copy Share Image
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating;… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge.… — Matt Diaz Copy Share Image
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
