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.

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.

CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…

You are way awesome than you think you are. Don't forget about your awesomeness today

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.

The greatest cost, namely time.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt