Chris Thile Quotes

Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.

You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

I love being on stage more than anything, and I think that's what comes across. I think the most honest representation of any music is to play it right there in front of people. It's a moment - it's all one of a kind, every little part of it. There's no repeat.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.

I love some kind of pressure in the air. Some kind of weirdness in the crowd, good or bad. That's what we thrive on.

It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.

It's volatile with GNR. Every night, it's anarchy on stage. Who knows what's gonna happen? That's rock n' roll, man.

Our buzz is from the crowd.

Derby day in Buenos Aires is completely crazy and those sort of experiences have shaped me.

Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.