Chris Thile Quotes

I don't think I'm getting better, quote unquote, as a singer or guitar player. But I'm more comfortable in this particular space. I get better at being a bad singer, so to speak.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

I definitely think of myself as a musician first.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

I consider myself a bassist first.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.

I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does.

I always play barefoot. I can't play with shoes on.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

To stand out, I just use my talents. I rap, and I sing as well. With that being said, people kind of know me for bringing that emotion in music.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

I chose music and that's what I do.

People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.

You cannot just be the feature act, not that that's a bad thing, because that's a good thing, especially nowadays. But as an artist, you want to express yourself and you want to know what you want to express.

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

I love music, and that is what I care for, and that is what I deliver for people.

With my band, I feel comfortable anywhere in the world.