Quotes by Mark Knopfler

“We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")”

“This empty kitchen's whereI'd while away the hoursJust next to my old chairYou'd usually have some flowersThe shelves of booksEven the picture hooksEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onIf th...”

“There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.”

“The drinking dens are spilling outThere's staggering in the squareThere's lads and lasses falling aboutAnd a crackling in the airDown around the dungeon doorsThe shelters and the queuesEverybody's ...”

“Im a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetIm a word pecker out of the printersout of the dens of Gin LaneIll ...”

“There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic ...”

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

“The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.”

“Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?”

“I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.”

“We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")”

“We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom”

“I’m a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetI’m a word pecker out of the printersout of the dens of Gin LaneI’...”

“You say I'm the greatest, bound for glory.Well the word is out and I learned.I got the latest side of the story:You're pulling out before you get burned.”

“And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the sceneHe's got a daytime job, he's doing alright.He can play the honky tonk like anything,Saving it up for Friday night.With the Sultans... with the Sul...”

“Stepping out to Angellucci's for my coffee beansChecking out the movies and the magazinesWaitress she watches me crossing from the Barocco BarI'm getting a pickup for my steel guitarI saw you walki...”

“Lady writer on the TVShe had all the brains and the beauty.The picture does not fitYou talked to me when you felt like it.Just the way that her hair fell down around her faceThen I recall my fall f...”

“Getting crazy on the Waltzers, but it's the life that I choose.Sing about the sixblade, sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo.And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream ...”

“A love struck Romeo, sings a street-suss serenade;Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made.Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shadeHe says something like, You and me babe,...”

“Juliet says, Hey, it's Romeo. You nearly give me a heart attack.He's underneath the window; she's singing, Hey, la, my boyfriend's back.You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that...”