"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"

-- Branford Marsalis

“In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.”
“If someone had asked, "How does this compare to kissing Kennedy?" I would have answered, "Who?”
“If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!”
“We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.”
“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.”

Source : "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.
“If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.”
“I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.”
“It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.”

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