Favourite MK quotes

[qjamesfloyd]

We're going to play for a while to get warmed up, get some grease going"
"Ferrari and Fender Strat, both got to be red really"
"I used to smell the catalogue"
"I'll go home in a hour or whenever it is, take a look at the songs, see how they are doing, put a bit in, chop a bit out, I love it"
Mark paraphrasing "You drop that, I'll drop you"
"He's not a music fan, he'd want Saddam Hussain's autograph and everyone else's"
"I still wish I could get a guitar to sound the way he does"
"I still think Fender is one the most beautiful words in the English language"

[JF]

“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.

here is an article by Ingo explaining this :

https://www.mk-guitar.com/2008/10/13/calling-elvis-chord-analysis-major-minor-no-third-power-chords/

[Pottel]

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

briliant....always loved this.

[jbaent]

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

briliant....always loved this.

Why bother?

[KnopfleRick]

Another one from Mark. "If you get to the end of a vocal and you've got nothing more to say, but maybe the guitar does."

[KnopfleRick]

Mark paraphrasing "You drop that, I'll drop you"

I love it!
You have to watch his facial expression when he is telling this story. Sooooo funny!

[jbaent]

Richard, you and me, the rest, good luck

[Dutchessy]

I just loved the Matchstick man story he told during the shows in 2019.

[knopflertom]

"He's not a music fan, he'd want Saddam Hussain's autograph and everyone else's"

Does this quote refer to Ruediger?

[knopflertom]

"Somtimes you gotta be an SOB, if you wanna make a dream reality" 

[Knopflerfan]

'Alright Girls'

'Take it away Keith'

[Dutchessy]

"He's not a music fan, he'd want Saddam Hussain's autograph and everyone else's"

Does this quote refer to Ruediger?

yes

[KnopfleRick]

"You really need an awful lot of desire to do this to try to write a good song and to try to make a good record of it.
And then the song walks out the door and goes off to have a life of its own.
And then to go out and maybe play it for people to complete the circuit and that`s what keeps it excited."

[JF]

"I still think Fender is one the most beautiful words in the English language"

I remember him saying "Fender and Gibson are the two most beautiful words in the English language"

[qjamesfloyd]

"He's not a music fan, he'd want Saddam Hussain's autograph and everyone else's"

Does this quote refer to Ruediger?

yes

Yes, he says it on the A Night In London show.