Mark Knopfler Quotes

I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that I should listen to, I would listen to it.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

I listen to a lot of stuff. I mean, I'm constantly switching up what I'm listening to.

I think 12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the fifth song, and then I don't get to really hear the rest of the record.

I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.

I just never really though you could or couldn't listen to a certain type of music.

Any songs that I like, I sort of rinse them out.

It's too easy now to find music, and it's therefore too easy to dismiss music, particularly music that doesn't hit you the first time you hear it.

I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears!

I listen to loads of different music all the time.

You can never stop discovering music.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

If it's music, I love it.

I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

I see the value in every kind of music, even country.