Quotes by David Knopfler - Page 1

Trust the tale, not the teller.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Trust
Tale
Teller
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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Formal
Setting
Settings
Terrible
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There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Done
Might
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The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Challenges
Needs
Statistics
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My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Kind
Oblivion
Sirens
Tested
Water
Campbell
Finds
Frequently
Inasmuch
Joseph
Siren
Waters
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I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Curves
Decades
Ducks
Etc
Fun
Learning Curve
Publishing
Curve
Duck
Label
Like A Duck
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I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Authorship
College
Gravity
Liable
Miles
Moved
Punishment
Vengeful
Escape
Induce
Longer
Seemed
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I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Contemplation
Familiarity
Magic
Spiritual
Worn
Time Always Me
Time Me Feel
Enter
Every Time
Studio
Stepping
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The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Expectations
Logic
Punishment
School
Club
Expectation
Figured
Folk
Followed
Prone
Punishments
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So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Blood
Large Numbers
Numbers
Paid
Sensible
Advances
Arrangement
Sell
Rarely
Record Company
Seemed
Sign
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Clean
Decades
Deny
Honest
Taken
Way
Work Myself Me
Aspects
Hide
Wanting
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Space
Creative Writing
Effort
Interfere
Resent
Solo
Writing
Aspects
Barrel
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Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Vacation
Albums
Fancy
Fancy Cars
Schemes
Afford
Album
Content
Meant
Grand
Scheme
Per
Sales
Vacations
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Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Concerts
Copies
Selling
Views
Week
Wonderful
Yeah
Hardly
Low-Budget
Oh Yeah
Primarily
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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Exhilaration
Feelings
Illusion
Magic
Starting
Tested
Wonderful
Behind
Craft
Create
Curtain
Liked
Feeling
Finally
Poets
Tried
Wonderful Feeling
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Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Opportunity
Decision
Fame
Mirrors
Regret
Best Experience Always
Bull
Distorting
Million
Opened
Opportunities
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If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Compelled
Doors
Driven
Ice
Unique
Work Your Will
Work Your Way
Original
Chances
Crack
Fiercely
Work Way Feel
The Doors
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I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Artist
Light
Matter
Soil
Extent
Sickly
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I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Focused
Masters
Online
People
Tears
Weakness
Willing
Me People Doing
Considered
Apart
Willing Me People
Craft
Degree
Indicate
Recently
Tear
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Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Jobs
Song
Writing
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I work in the margins. The margins are where you'll find the nice people. You'll find real friends. You'll find honesty. You'll find integrity. You'll find relationships that will last you for a lifetime and will be there to support you in the bad times, which are the only relationships that matter anyway. Relationships that are all about power and money aren't worth having.
David Knopfler / Guitarist
Honesty
Integrity
Real
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