Chris Thile quotes
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“I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.”
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“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 ThileSource : "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.
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“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 ThileSource : "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.
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“If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.”
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“Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.”
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“I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.”
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“If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.”
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“My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.”
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“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.”
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“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
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