Chris Thile Quotes

#1. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

#2. The purists are small in number but, you know hardy of voice.

Chris Thile

#3. If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

Chris Thile

#4. I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

Chris Thile

#5. I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

Chris Thile

#6. I'm a man of my word.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#7. The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

Chris Thile

#8. I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel like everyone is kind of always underlining just, you know, how voracious their appetites for various things are.

Chris Thile

#9. Injustice exists because men either abuse the weak or fail to defend the weak

Tony Merida

#10. Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

Chris Thile

#11. Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

Willis Regier

#12. My thesis statement would be - Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

Chris Thile

#13. It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

Chris Thile

#14. 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 all the time.

Chris Thile

#15. Harder to know that her father had sent her here. Hard, horrible, the the way he had looked at her, disowned her, accused her of treason. She'd been guilty. She had done every thing that he believed of her, and now she had no father.

Marie Rutkoski

#16. I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.

Chris Thile

#17. That'll be a dollar for the drinks," he said, "and five pence because the raven that wasn't here messed in the pickles.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read ... "

Chris Thile

#19. If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.

Chris Thile

#20. It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. I'm a big fan of the Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Amos Lee, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae and Chris Thile ... to name a few.

Jimi Westbrook

#22. Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There
could be joy in things that ended.

Ann Brashares

#23. It turns out that running 26.2 miles, and training body and soul to do it, is useful for heartbreak," she wrote. "It does not mend anything, your muscles are all broken, and that becomes the point. Everything is weary and strained and exhausted like your heart.

Celia Viggo Wexler

#24. The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

Chris Thile

#25. I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.

Chris Thile