Mark Knopfler
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I had a lot of jobs before I got into music. When I was 15, I was a copy boy for the 'Evening Ch... MARK KNOPFLER There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in... MARK KNOPFLER My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. MARK KNOPFLER I canceled the Russian shows because, from the days of the first Dire Straits album, I've suppor... MARK KNOPFLER For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the ... MARK KNOPFLER Sometimes you're the window; Sometimes you're the bug. MARK KNOPFLER My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues MARK KNOPFLER Everybody has their own ideas of Shangri-La ... I tried to teach myself to enjoy the present, enjoy ... MARK KNOPFLER I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much. MARK KNOPFLER I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perc... MARK KNOPFLER If you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an aco... MARK KNOPFLER The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. MARK KNOPFLER Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises ... MARK KNOPFLER What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. MARK KNOPFLER Instead of receding, the past actually becomes more important. That's what will happen to you. I... MARK KNOPFLER Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Some... MARK KNOPFLER Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes your the bug. MARK KNOPFLER My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that freque... DAVID KNOPFLER I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where ... DAVID KNOPFLER Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it ... DAVID KNOPFLER I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even t... DAVID KNOPFLER I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label an... DAVID KNOPFLER The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expec... DAVID KNOPFLER Trust the tale, not the teller. DAVID KNOPFLER I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - an... DAVID KNOPFLER So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't ... DAVID KNOPFLER Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that ... DAVID KNOPFLER In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, s... DAVID KNOPFLER I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree... DAVID KNOPFLER I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. DAVID KNOPFLER There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better. DAVID KNOPFLER If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something un... DAVID KNOPFLER Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about cont... DAVID KNOPFLER I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it... DAVID KNOPFLER An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing. MARK I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'... MARK BILLINGHAM MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ... MARK SHRIVER MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them. MARK SKOUSEN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori... MARK FOLEY MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK WARNER MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci... MARK VONNEGUT MARK ZANDI Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp... MARK PAGEL I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t... MARK RONSON MARK FRAUENFELDER MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't. MARK GATISS MARK MCKINNON MARK TWAIN MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! 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Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin... MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t... MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit... MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s... MARK RUTTE MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person. MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good... MARK STEYN MARK MCKINNON MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t... MARK HOPPUS MARK ZANDI MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th... 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If you don't think it.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. 
You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... 
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field c... 
It ends or it doesn't.
If you can dream it, you can do it. 
I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to l... 
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. W... 
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your ... 
I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you t... 
You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and... 
There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like wor... 
When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by your... 
I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am lear... 
If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, ... 
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands... 
If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fi... 
If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was... 
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 
Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to ... 
There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don... 
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a... 
When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. 
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of ... 
Do the thing and you will have the power. 
If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab... 
When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you fee... 
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... 
I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. J... 
If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. 
I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' i... 
You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ... 
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell... 
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. 
If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'Y... 
If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you hav... 
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If... 
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom becau... 
When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ... 
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You ... 
If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds s... 
We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're... 
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... 
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't... 
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better... 
When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to yo... 
When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don... 
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? 
Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have con... 
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."
It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, ... 
I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'... 
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don&#... 
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's a... 
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. 
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. 
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony... 
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos... 
I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. 
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan... 
Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit... 
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... 
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... 
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. 
I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... 
There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t... 
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... 
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... 
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... 
I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea... 
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ... 
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. 
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe... 
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... 