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Checkout quotes by Mark Knopfler on Music

  • My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
    - Mark Knopfler
  • The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
    - Mark Knopfler
  • The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.
    - Mark Knopfler
  • I had a lot of jobs before I got into music. When I was 15, I was a copy boy for the 'Evening Chronicle' in Newcastle. Then I was a journalist. I value those experiences - I got to see how the world works.
    - Mark Knopfler
  • While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.
    - Mark Knopfler
  • I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
    - Mark Knopfler
  • I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.
    - Mark Knopfler
  • I like to buy records for people, make a present of the music.
    - Mark Knopfler