Top 56 Knopfler Quotes

#1. I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #9863
#2. And what have you got at the end of the day?
What have you got to take away?

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #10538
#3. No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn,
Your hands are cold but your lips are warm.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #17607
#4. I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #42613
#5. Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #72752
#6. I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #124536
#7. Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes your the bug.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #181951
#8. The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #189583
#9. Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #193179
#10. I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #245650
#11. Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #294181
#12. The music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up ...

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #295369
#13. If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #296086
#14. While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #451583
#15. After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #457882
#16. Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #489724
#17. I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #534951
#18. I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #553341
#19. My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #606047
#20. Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #650229
#21. I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #687650
#22. I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #690308
#23. In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #724915
#24. Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #734844
#25. As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it ... it's a humbling experience ...

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #783071
#26. While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #806413
#27. I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #856836
#28. I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #860187
#29. There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #868195
#30. The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #897525
#31. Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
Worst hangover that I ever had.
It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #922086
#32. Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #929313
#33. The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #935393
#34. Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.

Douglas Adams

Knopfler Quotes #996448
#35. My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1063322
#36. There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1167427
#37. I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1177904
#38. A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1215573
#39. I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1247342
#40. We prayed these wars would end all wars
In war we know is no romance.
(Done With Bonaparte)

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1255321
#41. There should be laughter after pain, there should be sunlight after rain, these things have always been the same, so why worry now?
[Why Worry?]

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1279942
#42. I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1310240
#43. I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1316937
#44. I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1317153
#45. I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1328564
#46. My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1338454
#47. What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1367102
#48. I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1368567
#49. Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1422930
#50. When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1573134
#51. I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1591528
#52. Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1603011
#53. We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1636561
#54. There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1773994
#55. So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

David Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1841082
#56. Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Mark Knopfler

Knopfler Quotes #1869112

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