Stewart Copeland Quotes

#1. So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

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#2. Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

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#3. That's the great thing about music. If you played it, it's correct. The worst musical train wreck hurts absolutely no one. It's all part of the show. In fact it's how we get to the great stuff. There is no penalty for skating on the edge or throwing ourselves off the cliff. So we do.

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#4. I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

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#5. Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

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#6. Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

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#7. In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

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#8. [If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

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#9. The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

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#10. People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

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#11. I've got Arabic music in my blood.

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#12. That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

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#13. Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

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#14. And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

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#15. I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.

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