List of Mark Knopfler Quotes

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.

I Love Gibsons, And Nationals, Too. There's Something Magical About Them.

I'm Also Getting An Ovation Legend, Because I Like Them So Much.

I Was Into Playing American Music, Especially The Blues.

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.

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.

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 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.

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'm Not A Collector, However, And I Have No Desire To Own 50 Or 60 Guitars.

There's So Many Different Worlds.

My Playing Is Fairly Straightforward, Really, And Everything's Pretty Much Standard No Frills Or Special Effects.