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Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.
Mark Knopfler

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.
Mark Knopfler

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.
Mark Knopfler

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.
Mark Knopfler

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.
Mark Knopfler

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.
Mark Knopfler

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
Mark Knopfler

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
Mark Knopfler

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.
Mark Knopfler

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.
Mark Knopfler

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.
Mark Knopfler

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.
Mark Knopfler







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