Sting Quotes
Sting Quotes
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An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
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I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
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I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
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I don't like singing before noon.
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I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
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I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
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I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
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I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
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I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
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I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
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I realize that nothing's as it seems.
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I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
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I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
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I think I'm a focus for international attention.
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I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
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I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
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I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.
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I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
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I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
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I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
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I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
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I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
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If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
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My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
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One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
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The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
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The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
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When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
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