Chris Thile Quotes

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

My father speaks for himself, through his music.

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.