A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: foma on September 18, 2014, 11:03:25 PM
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Hi all, I think it's a good time to start a topic like that, because a lot of people online here on AMIT right now.
We all know, apart from his storytelling and playing, that Mark is also a great philosopher with an old-school alpha male masculinity and all that stuff. And I want to ask, that's your personal favourite MK quote(s)? The goal is not to collect a generally known quotes, like on a BrainyQuote site but something relatively new and rare. And it's cool to actually know where and when exactly Mark said that. I'll begin with my own choices:
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My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
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Take a hammer to the sea belles
And shout my name
And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame
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"get some clippers from somewhere man"
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"You and me babe, how about it..."
but I guess you don't mean the lyrics, so how about this one:
"When your dreams are come true, as it were, they never come true quite the way that you think that they will.
Reality is never what a dream is. But it's better than nothing, and I would still rather be trying to make my dreams come true.
I think that's still something to go for."
Mark Knopfler - A Life In Songs
LE
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"get some clippers from somewhere man"
(http://cs608720.vk.me/v608720999/7ec/0g_UVVeZxEw.jpg)
;D
Love Expresso, thanks, I've been searching this quote for a long time, but can't thought about 'A Life In Songs', I thought it was one of the press-kits :smack
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Pleasure!
LE
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You can only wear one pair of trousers at a time.
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Take a hammer to the sea belles
And shout my name
And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame
love that song...
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ain't runnin' outta nuthin' in my deep-a-freezeee.....
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Tour Quotes
'Hope nobody get's hurt'
'A 4 piece combo item'
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'I blew up the radio in fairly short order' quote from Guitarstories whilst playing in JG Windows Newcastle...
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Another tour quote:
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Tour quote:
"tonight we're gonna skip Marbletown and play Tunnel of Love instead!" ;D
In my dreams!
When introducing Why Worry with the NHB:
"This one's been done by lots of people: The Everley Brothers, Nana Mouskouri, Nina Maskara, Black Sabbath and Chet Atkins!"
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Tour quote:
"tonight we're gonna skip Marbletown and play Tunnel of Love instead!" ;D
In my dreams!
When introducing Why Worry with the NHB:
"This one's been done by lots of people: The Everley Brothers, Nana Mouskouri, Nina Maskara, Black Sabbath and Chet Atkins!"
;D ;D ;D. In all our dreams too !!!!!!
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Another tour quote:
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http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281)
funny anecdote with Clapton. I wonder which gig it was, as the article is from 86 ? prince trust gala ?
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You can lead a horse to water
You can't make him drink
*Notting Hillbillies - Your own sweet way
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http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281)
funny anecdote with Clapton. I wonder which gig it was, as the article is from 86 ? prince trust gala ?
Maybe at one of Hammersmith Odeon gig he guested between 18-22 december 1985
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Tour quote:
"tonight we're gonna skip Marbletown and play Tunnel of Love instead!" ;D
In my dreams!
When introducing Why Worry with the NHB:
"This one's been done by lots of people: The Everley Brothers, Nana Mouskouri, Nina Maskara, Black Sabbath and Chet Atkins!"
;D ;D ;D. In all our dreams too !!!!!!
Except mine!!
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Mine, too.
Really folks, I never understood this Tunnel of Love melancholy... today he would do it in a stripped-down version, and the intro, the massive piano, the fast drumming, the NOISE, all that would just not be delievered from Mark and his band these days. So it would be a great mess and a disappointment for sure. A masterpiece it is of course, but let it rest in peace and remember all those great versions..
LE
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Between then and now he has the time and opportunities to give him a new life instead of weaking to death the first half of TR.
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It is just that he doesn't want to play too much guitar anymore these days. Marbletown is a 15 minute break, together with Paraguay nearly 20 minutes of not playing complicated solo stuff. The solo on Kingdom of Gold is very sad when you think of it as a highlight of the evening compared with earlier stuff.
But this thread is about quotes.. .
Did Mk actually ever say "You can't polish a Doo-Doo?" Where and when?
LE
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"A pint of beer, Pete" - MK at his local pub ;D
"F..ck where is that bloody plectrum" - MK waking up one morning his guitar still in hands
(we are sorry to announce that the plectrum has not be retrieved yet)
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Did Mk actually ever say "You can't polish a Doo-Doo?" Where and when?
I double that. Been searching for the source of this one for a long time, too. And, by the way, one of the greatest quotes about early DS is:
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about Tunnel of love I agree with LE. see what he has done with TR, imho it did not improve the song, so I guess it would be the same with TOL.
if he had to resurface old songs, I think that songs from the "epic" era (80-85) are not the good candidates regarding his way of playing now.
He better should chose "laid-back" songs (e.g. six blade knife, lions, communique, follow me home, wild west end, etc...) it would fit better to his current musical style imho
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"F..ck where is that bloody plectrum" - MK waking up one morning his guitar still in hands
(we are sorry to announce that the plectrum has not be retrieved yet)
"the plectrum is the best amplifier you can get in the world"
(we are working with Ingo on an article about all songs played with a pick by Mark :P)
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about Tunnel of love I agree with LE. see what he has done with TR, imho it did not improve the song, so I guess it would be the same with TOL.
if he had to resurface old songs, I think that songs from the "epic" era (80-85) are not the good candidates regarding his way of playing now.
He better should chose "laid-back" songs (e.g. six blade knife, lions, communique, follow me home, wild west end, etc...) it would fit better to his current musical style imho
I agree. I think if MK played TOL these days, it would be a huge disappointment. Much better to leave it in the past rather than destroy good memories. It's much better that MK plays the songs that he enjoys playing imo. However I do still love TR! ;)
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http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281)
funny anecdote with Clapton. I wonder which gig it was, as the article is from 86 ? prince trust gala ?
Maybe at one of Hammersmith Odeon gig he guested between 18-22 december 1985
ah yes indeed I forgot theses gigs.
I have the 19/12/85 (silver bootleg "cocaine") and just before two young lovers he says something like "what do you want ? you want Eric Clapton or what ?" but I do'nt remember the fact about the "no working guitar", maybe another gig.
it's funny to note that the guitar for two young lovers changed between 85 and 86 :
in 85 it was the Everline automatic, while the black schecter tele was used on solid rock (wembley with Nils Logfren)
in 86, two young lovers was played on the black schecter tele (the famous "clippers" moments at Sydney)
so would it mean that the change appeared in late 85 because the Everline didn't "work" ?
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And, by the way, one of the greatest quotes about early DS is:
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In the Oldfield Book, Ed says that the first thing that he remarked the 1st night he went to a DS "pub-gig" was that "it wasn't necessary to stay at the back of the room, like it was for almost all bands at the time. Their music was not loud like all other rock bands"
Wow, thank you. I remember these words. So it was my mind which translated it into
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another quote that comes to mind :
in an itw the journalist asked him "which advice would you give to a guitar beginner ?"
answer : " you have to listen to OLD blues-rock music, and take it from the beginning. And when I'm telling "Old music" I don't mean Led Zeppelin you know... I mean Bukka White, Son House, Leadbelly, etc..."
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And, by the way, one of the greatest quotes about early DS is:
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Could somebody please recall a MK's quote about guitar being your friend for all your life?
I can't remember wether it was Guitar Stories, or Privateering EPK, or A Life In Songs.
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It's definitely from Guitar Stories. Have to check if you want to know the exact minute..
LE
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It was 'Music will be a friend for life' and that was from Guitar Stories I believe off hand.... :wave
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"You never stop learning about this stuff, and that's another thing: A guitar will be a friend to all your life. I always tell kids that are starting now it doesn't really matter what happens, just keep playing and keep enjoying and music will be a friend to all your life."
The last lines of Mark in "Guitar Stories" at the last two minutes of it. Written down by ear, and Mark mumbling as bad as always, so I maybe I got it wrong. some other might understand it better.
LE
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Oooooh, thank you guys! Great words, though.
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Guitar stories - as Mark and John leave the studio in Deptford...
John say's to MK along the lines of 'course you were probably with one of your girlfriends' to which Mark replies - 'Oh Get outta here'
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I have another question for all of you, Knopfler fans (lol sorry for the wordplay, Stephen).
In one of the interviews Mark said his main reason in his art and his songs and in everything is the
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Guitar stories - as Mark and John leave the studio in Deptford...
John say's to MK along the lines of 'course you were probably with one of your girlfriends' to which Mark replies - 'Oh Get outta here'
Yes, I loved that too ;D
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I have another question for all of you, Knopfler fans (lol sorry for the wordplay, Stephen).
In one of the interviews Mark said his main reason in his art and his songs and in everything is the
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Guitar stories - as Mark and John leave the studio in Deptford...
John say's to MK along the lines of 'course you were probably with one of your girlfriends' to which Mark replies - 'Oh Get outta here'
Yes, I loved that too ;D
The most funny thing is going next right after
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Another tour quote: