Thile Quotes

#1. 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

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

Chris Thile

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

Chris Thile

#4. 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

#5. You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it.

Dean Koontz

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

Chris Thile

#7. 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

#8. This is God's promise to us. In Christ, the not-rightness of the world is already defeated. Jesus's cry of "it is finished" from the cross was true and real. When things aren't all right now, take comfort in the fact that they will be, forever.

Tullian Tchividjian

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Chris Thile

#13. There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.

David Letterman

#14. The inner intent one has of 'may everyone attain salvation', will bring salvation to himself first.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Chris Thile

#18. Life is full of wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Chris Thile

#20. So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, switching to Yoda power probably isn't worth the trouble - though it would definitely be green.

Randall Munroe

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

Chris Thile

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

Chris Thile