Favourite MK quotes

[TheTimeWasWrong]

“My idea of Heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues”

One of my favorites as well!

[Robson]

My favorite too:)

[KnopfleRick]

"One Humanity, one Justice!"

[Robson]

"One Humanity, one Justice!"

 

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

[KnopfleRick]

And this is one of my favorites:

"There's nothing wrong waiting for the good things in life".

[KnopfleRick]

I blew my family radio

I love this story. It always puts a smile on my face.

[Robson]

And this is one of my favorites:

"There's nothing wrong waiting for the good things in life".

And it reminded me of another:

Something’s going to happen
To make your whole life better
Your whole life better one day...

[JF]

"the pick is the best amplifier".... said by a man who is the master of fingerpicking 

[quizzaciously]

I really loved Mark’s “goodbye speeches” in 2019. Not because it’s a farewell speech, but simply because he had an impressive courage to deliver it and to withstand the genuine WTF reaction from the audience. It’s unbelievable he changed his mind half way through the tour and it was really strange if you think about it.

I can’t understand why he had to change it. He could’ve said a goodbye speech everywhere, then, if he really want it, on another tour say “I’ll play till I fall over”, but not in the middle of the current tour. It really sounds as if he’s not sure himself, pretty strange for such a confident man. Or better yet, leave the WTF speech altogether and just say that he’ll play until he falls over.

[kaleo74]

Few gems here too : (Ref https://guitar.com/features/interviews/mark-knopfler/)

“I remember sitting in a bar listening to Telegraph Road, and I thought to myself: ‘What a lifeless bunch of old toss this is!’”

“I don’t know how often that kind of ‘transcending’ gig is supposed to happen – if I’m finding my way across the fretboard well and if I’m getting a sound I like, then sure, things can definitely take off.”

And my favorite : (Ref. http://ds.mk-guitar.com/knopfler-interviews.htm)

“I like working around that delicious place where country meets blues, playing with the third or the absence of the third. It's a highly stimulating pre-orgasmic area.”

I think this one perfectly defines Mark's music and all his musical universe and that's what makes his success too.

[relaxcoustic]

“I like working around that delicious place where country meets blues, playing with the third or the absence of the third. It's a highly stimulating pre-orgasmic area.”

Hm can anyone help explain what does playing in thirds mean?

[hunter]

“I like working around that delicious place where country meets blues, playing with the third or the absence of the third. It's a highly stimulating pre-orgasmic area.”

Hm can anyone help explain what does playing in thirds mean?

A chord consists of minimum three notes, the first note of the scale (root note), the third note of the scale and the fifth note of the scale. The third can be minor or major and decides whether the chord is a minor chord or a major chord. A lot of roots music, including blues, kind of avoids the third note, and it is therefore not clear if the song is in a minor or major key. Kind of ambiguous.

[hunter]

I don’t care how many modal dingbats you know.

[Jules]

tonight we’re going to have a swing at Macbeth

[hunter]

I also have to add a quote by Brendan Croker about Mark: Here's a song that Mark wrote all on his own.