Chris Thile Quotes

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed in my arms. I fell in love with that instrument, and I still love it today. I love it so much.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

Detroit has always been a rock and roll audience for me and picked up on me and my performances long before a lot of other places in the country. I will never forget that. It's a home away from home. I love it.

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.

The great love of my life is music.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

I respect music, I do. I love it.

Music is my love.

I lived for music since I could think.

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.