Chris Thile famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.
-- Chris Thile

#Holiday #Three #Celebrate
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

#Thinking #Voice #People
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

#Real #Voice #People
If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.
-- Chris Thile

#Thinking #Cracks
Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.
-- Chris Thile

#Pbs #Watches #Bars
I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.
-- Chris Thile

#Might #Enough #Obsessing
If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.
-- Chris Thile

#Want #Want To Be Happy
My thesis statement would beâ€”Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.
-- Chris Thile

#Writing #Would Be #Great Music
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

#Thinking #Play #Records
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

#Song #Real #Roots

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