I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

Mark Knopfler

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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 about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.

guitar music player

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

definitions would-be reality

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

diversity different world

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.

secret law song

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug. by Mark Knopfler

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

bugs humorous funny

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, wher... by Mark Knopfler

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

delta-blues heaven ideas

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always re... by Mark Knopfler

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

rebel song trying

I left for the same reasons everyone leaves jobs that are no longer fulfilling their hopes and aspirations. I didn't see myself spending the rest of my life being a strummer for someone else's dreams. 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 bullshit and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

regret dream jobs

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

guitar music play

I shoulda learned to play the guitar. by Mark Knopfler

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

guitar play

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality by Mark Knopfler

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

dream motivational reality

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

play people thinking

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

groups band different

Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry. You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die". There's a place for us, you know the movie song. When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

stars love-you song

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawy... by Mark Knopfler

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

lawyer church school

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, by Mark Knopfler

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,

hangover drinking night

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.

music play song

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

fingers causes three

I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.

sound song thinking

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.

bass guitar play