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Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

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Chris Thile
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 20
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musician
Radio Personality
Singer-Songwriter
Oceanside
USA
Television
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Bars
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Window
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If you want to be happy, you listen to the music if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.
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I really love how the andante from the A minor Sonata sounds on the mandolin.
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The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.
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I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay Teach Yourself How To Sight Read...
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The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?
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I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.
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My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.
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I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.
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I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.
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I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel like everyone is kind of always underlining just, you know, how voracious their appetites for various things are.
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