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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

~David Knopfler

Topics: Always Behind Best Craft Create Curtain Even Exhilaration Feeling Finally How Illusion Just Liked Magic Now Poetry Poets See Starting Tested Tried Used Wonderful Wonderful Feeling

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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

~David Knopfler

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I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

~David Knopfler

Topics: About Apart Been Considered Craft Degree Doing Even Focused Found Getting Indicate Lucky Masters Me Online People Polish Pretty Recently Seem Tear Up Weaknesses Who Willing

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I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

~David Knopfler

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I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

~David Knopfler

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I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

~David Knopfler

Topics: Always Certain Contemplation Enter Every Every Time Familiarity Feel Had Like Magic Me Never Off Place Spiritual Stepping Studio Time Worn I Feel I Feel Like

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I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

~David Knopfler

Topics: Could Curve Decades Doing Duck Etc Fun Label Learning Learning Curve Like Like A Duck Much My Own Myself Own Process Publishing Set Took Two Up Water

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If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

~David Knopfler

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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

~David Knopfler

Topics: Aspects Behind Clean Come Day Decades Deny Find Hide Honest Make Me More Myself Some Sometimes Still Taken Wanting Ways Work

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My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

~David Knopfler

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: December 27th, 1952

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