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

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

- Chris Thile

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

- Chris Thile

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

- Chris Thile

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

- 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 d…

- 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 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 …

- 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 o…

- Chris Thile