David Knopfler Quotes

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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…
• 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,…
• Trust the tale, not the teller.
• The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 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,…
• 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…
• I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
• There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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