Classical music Quote by Chris Thile

A cocktail and an oyster is an awfully good thing after a park, especially one close to water.

— Chris Thile

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

I'm always going to need to play in front of people.

— Chris Thile

I love music so much. It's like the one thing I'm good at.

— Chris Thile

Like a sporting event, live events are the one thing you can't have anytime you want them.

— Chris Thile

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us.

— Chris Thile