Mark Knopfler Quotes

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.