Chris Thile Quotes

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school... whatever... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it's good, I'll listen to it.

My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

I know music is subjective.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

I grew up with a wide range of music.

Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.

I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming from bluegrass, where one conducts oneself rhythmically, it seemed like such a different approach, and at that point the difference that I was noticing was a real turn off to me.

I'm not gonna sit back and listen to somebody who listens to 3LW all day.

People that like Slipknot that could care less about Stone Sour, people that like Stone Sour that don't know a lot of Slipknot.

I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different kinds of music around me because of my parents.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.

They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

I grew up in a musical environment. My parents played music and had it playing on the radio. They brought me to a concert at the age of 5, the same age I started violin lessons.