113 Quotes by Chris Thile

My thesis statement would be – Bach didn’t write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

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.

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

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?

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

If I was any happier, you’d think I was on crack.

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.

I say if you’re not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

I really love how the andante from the “A minor Sonata” sounds on the mandolin.