Chris Thile Quotes

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.

Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

There is a real joy to be able to get up and react to each other and appreciate the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, just the chemistry of the group.

People can connect in different ways. If you do a rope course with someone you otherwise wouldn't meet and you share this incredible challenge, then you have perhaps formed a bond that could last forever.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.

I think the most important thing is that everybody is happy creating, and doing what they want to do, and have really great relationships with each other.

In my life, it's always been about who I'm going to collaborate with. Less important to me is what the subject is.

People will go through 50 beats from a producer and pick the best ones, go make a song on that beat. That's cool, but someone coming to me and hearing what I've been working on, picking out pieces of all of that, and then adding some of their own ideas is way more exciting.

My fans are so open-minded and trust that whatever I'm doing, in whatever moment of time, is the most accurate form of expression that I have to offer them. There are no expectations - only a journey which we all share together.

Chickenfoot, my relationship with those guys is great.

I wasn't always totally interested solely in music as a sort of visceral expression of people in unison and synchronized, a federated expression of a group of people. I loved it as a wallflower, as a fan, but when I was in it, I always felt like I wasn't built for it.

I enjoy creating relationships with my teammates, my friends, and I genuinely care about people.

My wife and I make an awesome tag team.

There's nothing like sitting down and playing music with somebody. It breaks down all the barriers in life.

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other.

The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.

Communicating with a man is a very new experience for me.

With 'Start With Me,' I sent it to Gunna and he sent it right back. I didn't have to ask him. If I send you a song, you gonna vibe to it and if you don't, it's cool.

One of the things I like to do is to try to jam with everybody.