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David Knopfler Quotes
I always liked the magic of poetry but now Im just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how theyve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. - David Knopfler Quotes
I didnt really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. - David Knopfler Quotes
I dont know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you arent - and if you are youll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow. - David Knopfler Quotes
I feel like Im stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; its always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity. - David Knopfler Quotes
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago. - David Knopfler Quotes
Id make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. - David Knopfler Quotes
Im pretty much below the radar of commercial visibility everywhere, though the US is indeed the place Ive sadly most neglected. - David Knopfler Quotes
Ive been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. Ive been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses. - David Knopfler Quotes
If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack. - David Knopfler Quotes
In some ways its taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. - David Knopfler Quotes
In the early days I really enjoyed the freedoms it offered because I was happy to work the long hours as long as I was working from home a lot. - David Knopfler Quotes
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters. - David Knopfler Quotes
Now Im having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but Im pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if its meant I dont drive a fancy car and cant afford grand vacations. - David Knopfler Quotes
Now that Im staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, Im less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing. - David Knopfler Quotes
Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesnt go by when I dont hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts. - David Knopfler Quotes
So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didnt sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. - David Knopfler Quotes
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didnt fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. - David Knopfler Quotes
Theres nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better. - David Knopfler Quotes
Trust the tale, not the teller. - David Knopfler Quotes
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how Ive always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders. - David Knopfler Quotes
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