Mark Knopfler Quotes

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

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

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.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

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.

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.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

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.

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.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

There's so many different worlds.

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

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.

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.

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

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.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

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

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom