Amazing thoughts from Chris Thile that have stuck with me ever since I first read this interview:
"I look at mandolin as the one tool I have, that I have some idea how to use. But no more. To me, I'm not interested in pursuing the perfection of mandolin. It's just that I want to be as handy with that tool as I can. Being good at the mandolin isn't interesting in and of itself. Being good at music is very interesting to me.
We have a tremendous amount of respect for our predecessors on this group of instruments, which is commonly associated with bluegrass, but we're not interested in being museum curators of their work. Rather, we want them to influence our work. They weren't debilitatingly beholden to their predecessors, and neither should we."
"I'm 30 now. I was 19 when Nickel Creek recorded that second record, and we finally were starting to work with a bit more humility and awareness, in this huge and powerful and endlessly inspiring arena of music. At 30 years old, I'm newly convinced of my relative incompetence. I'd like to think I write music with a lot more humility and a lot more love. I deeply, deeply love music and am honored to just be a participant."
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