Quotes by Mark Knopfler

About Mark Knopfler:

Mark Freuder Knopfler is a British singer songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his younger brother, David Knopfler, in 1977.
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There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

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

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I’m a maker of ballads right pretty I write them right here in the street You can buy them all over the city yours for a penny a sheet I’m a word pecker out of the printers out of the dens of Gin Lane I’ll write up a scene on a counter - confes...

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

Mark Knopfler

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.

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

Mark Knopfler

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

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Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Mark Knopfler

This empty kitchen's where I'd while away the hours Just next to my old chair You'd usually have some flowers The shelves of books Even the picture hooks Everything is gone But my heart is hanging on If this old neighborhood Survived us both alright ...

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It was so late and she’d be sleeping He came through her home town With the moonlight on the crossroads And the green light shining down And the bell at the railroad crossing And the horn from far away And his Silver Eagle passing Half a mile from ...

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

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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.

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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.

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After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

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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, ...

Mark Knopfler

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameMark Knopfler
  • DescriptionEnglish guitarist
  • BornAugust 12, 1949
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Guitarist; Singer; Musician; Composer
  • WorksCalling Elvis
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Steiger Award