David Knopfler
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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 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 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 I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have con... 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 biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ... DAVID DAVID KATZMAN LARRY DAVID DAVID HAREWOOD DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ... DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo... DAVID LANGE DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a... 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DAVID HARSANYI Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end ... DAVID HEWSON Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds... DAVID HANSON DAVID SEDARIS College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e... DAVID SZE DAVID MAMET DAVID LACHAPELLE Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It's basically chicken sk... DAVID SAX Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two wh... DAVID EINHORN I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being... DAVID EINHORN During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr... DAVID EINHORN I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g... DAVID EINHORN I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work. DAVID EINHORN My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh... DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table. DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn... DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo... DAVID EINHORN DAVID CRYSTAL LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun... DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe... DAVID MIXNER If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ... DAVID HALBERSTAM DAVID TENNANT I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up... DAVID STRATHAIRN DAVID LYNCH DAVID HOCKNEY DAVID HUME Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom... DAVID WHYTE
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it ho... 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
- I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
You know, if a band on a label sold a few hundred thousand copies of their record these days, they w... 
For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, ... 
I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him. 
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of w... 
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they&... 
Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that ther... 
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a... 
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. 
I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want t... 
If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone.... 
I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someo... 
Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile. 
Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the... 
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. 
I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occ... 
Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it... 
I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by vide... 
Nutrition doesn't have to be complicated. It goes back to the lessons you learned as a kid. Star... 
The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have ... 
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they lear... 
I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences ... 
The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have ... 
Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something. 
When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they have... 
I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself... 
I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movie... 
A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non... 
Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't trea... 
A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to;... 
You don't know what in reality has happen...!? 
You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you... 
Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their... 
I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a hig... 
I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don... 
I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'... 
When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really ... 
I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those pe... 
You don't need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn't make ... 
I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I ... 
Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't wan... 
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect... 
I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole ... 
We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will. 
Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the charac... 
I actually don't have a view on whether someone watching certain material that may be legal in s... 
Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake. 
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't... 
Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The... 
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ... 
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s... 
You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old. 
We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people. 
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,... 
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in... 