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My music is played during spam and dying
The longtime guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits over his fear of fame, his troubles with the money and his new CD, "Privateering".
TIME: Mr. Knopfler, you rarely give interviews. But why?
MK: Because I want to be left alone. I live quietly in London, why should I be without great hardship to draw attention to myself? There is not more precious than the private sphere. My colleagues are all that rise up on talk shows, a complete mystery. You will never see me in such a program. Only my sons do not accept my distaste for TV appearances. They always want that I was in a car show called "Top Gear" auftrete: "Dad! Dad! Dad! You have to join there. The show is so cool! "" No, it's not cool, guys! "
TIME: You distrust the media in general?
MK: No, I'm just shy. And do not get me wrong, I have nothing against the press or television. I spend a lot of time at home in the horizontal. Reading and watching TV. As long as there are no pop-casting shows.
TIME: When casting show ends your tolerance?
MK: Of course. Since I already hate the idea! At talent shows people are so degraded much that eventually the company will suffer. How can there be an audience for television spectacle, deprived the people of their dignity? What kind of a society that allows something disgusting?
TIME: Some of your songs are classics of the genre. Are not in the talent shows singing sometimes for young talent?
MK: That some would like. I regularly get requests from talent shows and refused each time for permission to use my music there. I want to be in any way associated with such a system in conjunction menschenverachtendem.
TIME: Your former Dire Straits is one of the most successful British pop history. As a singer-songwriter you've centered. Do you have a hard time to be famous?
MK: It is a yes little choice but to come to terms with fame. I noticed the already hard and it lasted until I got used to it. I owe my success but also a wonderful studio and a spectacular collection of guitars that I would not otherwise be able to pay. I'm a skeptical person and still can not believe that I heard the now permanent. Every year I ask my accountant if I have to worry every year and he says that I will never have to worry about money.
TIME: You have played with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and many other high-caliber colleagues and are considered one of the best guitarists of all time. Nevertheless, you have remained a kind of phantom. Is it fair to say that you are the glory and the major success were always as much as possible out of the way.
MK: I always tried to stealth. Do you know what made me to be at stadium concerts almost invisible? My forehead sweatband! I was only on the stage, the only place where I had to show me. I sweated enormously at concerts, so much so that the sweat ran into my eyes. This forehead sweatband was convenient and because it drew attention to itself, and many thought it was ugly, much interesting - everyone had an opinion about it. The funniest part was that I was no sweat band when the show was over, no longer recognized - I walked off the stage and became invisible.
TIME: Is it known if a dinosaur was named after?
MK: Probably. I have to thank a group of archaeologists who supposedly every time they played my music, ausbuddelten something exciting. They thanked him by a fossil named after me. That fits, because my fame is weird anyway. My songs have been launched into space, in Nepal recognized me even a taxi driver and began "Brothers In Arms" to sing. My music is playing at weddings and funerals, spam and die.
TIME: Why did you decided in 1995 Dire Straits surprisingly the chapter end?
MK: I, the band had become too large. I struggled with the tours, too many gigs at places far too great. Cost me a marriage and it was difficult for me, my love for music freshen. I realized at some point that I continue as a musician, only when I leave the limelight behind me and think back to a more moderate form of reality. My solo career is much more reduced and brought me back the joy of music.
TIME: If instead of Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits name on your new album, "Privateering" would, you'd probably sell a lot more records, right?
MK: How do you figure that this might be so?
TIME: As with the name Dire Straits a different expectation is linked and much less familiar with your names.
MK: I think so, say so honestly. My listeners will already be aware that my name has to do with the Dire Straits to quite a bit. No matter how many listeners are. Dire Straits and is something that I have stripped. It's that simple
TIME: Would you be worried if your new album "Privateering" would be successful? If it would draw too much attention to you again?
MK: I'm relaxed, because the music I make, includes a vast audience in my opinion. But success is unpredictable. That made me the Dire Straits album taught "Brothers In Arms". When I started writing this, I wanted away from the sound of the previous, very successful Dires Straits albums, such as "Love Over Gold" and "Making Movies". What bothered me was the drum sound that characterized my previous songs often.
So I gave up on it in "Brothers In Arms", with the exception of three songs, where the sound just worked too well: MFN, WOL & SFA. Three songs, which were then successfully mislead.
TIME: You once said that many of your songs are based on observations you make in public places. For example dialogues overheard in a restaurant. They still come through as an anonymous observer?
MK: Since the end of the Dire Straits has again become easier. On my new album, "Privateering" is a song called "Seattle", which is just created, such as "Sultans of Swing" or MFN. During my last tour I was sitting one evening in a bar in Seattle, watching a football game from Arsenal. At least as interesting was a young couple who sat within earshot, and relatively loud arguing. It was about the classic themes to burst dreams. Perhaps he had just lost his job, I do not know. From this I first great disappointment and disillusionment recognized in life, which I also remember exactly how it feels. I listened, thought about my own life, and then made a song out of it.
TIME: songwriting over the years, is it easier or harder?
MK: For me, there is nothing changed. There are good days and bad days, I worry I'll never there. I sit with a laptop and guitar in a small room of my house. If I did not even think of, I know that it will soon be better. Who is not an optimist in the music business goes under. Who wants to drive a belt through all the adversity that brings this job so with himself, must take things positively. I see it from the first days of Dire Straits. I always wanted to be successful, make a living from music. It worked. But while it's not just about talent, but also about perseverance. This is true not only for music but for any profession.
TIME: How do you define a good song?
MK: If the listener is moved. I experienced muscle-bound types in my concerts, variety, lugging the day very heavy bags of cement. I know the type well because I grew up among them. They come with their wives and children to my concerts and radiate how uncomfortable them this evening. And then when the front of the stage, the muscular arms crossed over his chest and ready defense eventually wipe tears from his face, then you must have probably hit a nerv.
TIME: How do you define success?
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