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David Knopfler

(1952) Guitarist United Kingdom

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David Knopfler is a guitarist from the United Kingdom, best known for The Bluffer's Guide to the Rock Business.

Quick Facts About David Knopfler

Born: December 27, 1952
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Guitarist
Notable works: The Bluffer's Guide to the Rock Business
Spouse: Anna Perera

About David Knopfler

David Knopfler is a British musician. Together with his older brother Mark Knopfler, John Illsley, and Pick Withers, he founded the rock band Dire Straits in 1977, serving as rhythm guitarist on their first two albums. After quitting the band in 1980 during the recording of their third album, Knopfler embarked upon a solo career as a recording artist.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by David Knopfler

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the…

Albums

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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…

Concerts

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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…

Advances

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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…

Certain

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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,…

Behinds

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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…

Bulls

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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…

British

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Trust the tale, not the teller.

Storytelling

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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…

Faith

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There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

Done

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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…

Bad time

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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…

Authorship

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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Formal

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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…

Chance

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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…

Curves

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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,…

Aspect

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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…

Crafts

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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.

Challenges

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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…

Clubs

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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…

Aspect

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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…

Art

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