"...the music you make is shaped by what……" — Mark Knopfler
"...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up..."
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25 Quotes by Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler has 25 quotes on this site.
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Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality
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There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different…
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Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.
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As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget…
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A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence,…
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What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.
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I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.
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I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking…
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Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry. You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love…
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I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.
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While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on…
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I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff.…
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More Acoustic Quotes
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one of 146 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
— Kevin Bacon
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Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and…
— Lester Bangs
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just…
— Travis Barker
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
— Eric Clapton
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year.…
— Eric Clapton
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
— Ian Anderson
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk…
— Ian Anderson
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Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of…
— Jacques Loeb
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit…
— Andy Gibb
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There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy…
— Michael Martin Murphey
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