113 Quotes by Chris Thile

If you're sitting there going, 'Well, these particular genres are the only genres I like,' that's like saying, 'I only like books with this particular kind of cover.' Because that's all genre is. It's a discussion of texture.

In my mind, there's this one 'super genre,' which is the only genre that matters, and that's the super genre of good music.

I love putting on shows. I absolutely adore it - that's why I've been doing it now for so long.

No one wants to hear me doing my best Garrison Keillor... I think that he's inimitable; he's one in a billion.

Ever since I became better acquainted with classical music, I've wanted to try my hand at longer forms, but I could never really see my way to it. And after I got divorced, all of a sudden I had a lot of pent-up energy and lots of stuff that had gone into trying to make this failing relationship work that kind of got reapplied.