Mark Knopfler Quotes

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.

I know how to play the acoustic guitar, but I'm learning to play the electric guitar now. I'm sure it will be a wonderful experience.

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I've been part of five different bands in my time.

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

I play the guitar a little bit.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.