Chris Thile Quotes

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

I know of no group or class that we do not reach—and we please none.

I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

Guy's guys are of course welcome! But my audience runs the spectrum of humanity. There's something for everyone!

I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

'La Cage' has got a broad appeal. It obviously appeals to the gay community, but it's also a good, fun show that appeals across a broad audience, a great big mixture.

I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I don't care where they come from.

We've always been a band that intentionally transcended race and age.

I think I'm obsessed with accessibility which is why, when I'm touring, I want to play all ages shows.

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

I didn't go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock 'n roll kids, skateboard kids.

Films should be for everybody.

I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.

I don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I've played lots of different roles, and they've connected with lots of different people.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

My main goal was to have something for everyone and not just one sound.

I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.