Thile Quotes & Sayings

If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack. — Chris Thile

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. — Donald O'Connor

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

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

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

The purists are small in number but, you know hardy of voice. — Chris Thile

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

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

I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough. — Chris Thile

My thesis statement would be - Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. — Chris Thile

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words. — Chris Thile

I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock. — Skip Bertman

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

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what - if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again. — Robert Breault

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin. — Chris Thile

The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear ... Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it! — John Henry Jowett

You're worth fucking all that." I stared at him as that warmth swept through me again but I replied, "It's foolish." "You're worth bein' that too. — Kristen Ashley

Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar. — Chris Thile

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

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

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

One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing. — Marie Calloway

Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst. — Joe Dumars

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film. — Dennis Miller

We're not robbing him," Skulduggery said." But I'm afraid I have some bad news."
"Is it Deacon?" Francine asked, her eyes wide.
"It is."
"Is he sick?"
"It's a little worse than that."
She gasped. "He's dying?"
"He was briefly dying," said Skulduggery. "Now he's dead. — Derek Landy

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche