"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."

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Source : "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.

Chris Thile

#Real Quotes #Voice Quotes #People Quotes

“Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.”
“If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.”
“From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the greatest source of error in the assertions of Benedict and Lombroso has been the finding of this or that variation in a criminal's brains, and maintaining such to be characteristic of the 'criminal constitution,' unmindful of the fact that like variations of structure may and do exist in the brains of normal, moral persons.”
“Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.”
“There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.”
“And not a vanity is given in vain.”
“A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.31, New York Review of Books
“People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”

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