Mark Knopfler Quotes

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.

I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy the girl with the guitar.

Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

What I've wanted to do my whole life is just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically. Music, as well, is a passion of mine. I've been singing my whole life. I probably annoy people because I sing all the time on the streets. And I play the drums and I play the guitar. I've been writing music since I was 13.

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

I want to make great songs.

[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.