Sting Quotes

#1. When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

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#2. Every breath you take and every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I'll be watchin' you
Every single day and every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I'll be watchin' you

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#3. In my quest to become unique, I've become a statistic.

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#4. I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

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#5. I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

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#6. If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
(History Will Teach Us Nothing)

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#7. I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

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#8. If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

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#9. A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

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#10. Hell is full of high court judges.

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#11. I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so.

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#12. It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

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#13. When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

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#14. Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

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#15. Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

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#16. Songs are built by whimsy, faulty memory, and free association.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. If you love somebody, set them free.

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#20. I don't like singing before noon.

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#21. Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

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#22. Be yourself, no matter what they say.

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#23. 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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#24. I think I'm a focus for international attention.

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#25. I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

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#26. 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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#27. I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

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#28. Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

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#29. I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

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#30. It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

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#31. I never made promises lightly
There may have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We will walk in fields of gold

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#32. 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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#33. I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

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#34. One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

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#35. 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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#36. I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

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#37. You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

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#38. If "Manners maketh man," as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself, no matter what they say."
(Englishman in New York)

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#39. Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

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#40. Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure

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#41. That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

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#42. Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

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#43. 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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#44. I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

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#45. Love is stronger than justice.

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#46. Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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#47. I see a city in the desert lies
The vanity of an ancient king
But the city lies in broken pieces
While the wind howls and the vultures sing

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#48. It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

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#49. I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

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#50. The search for perfection is all good and well ...
But to look for heaven is to live here in hell.

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#51. The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

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#52. Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

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#53. 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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#54. I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

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#55. I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

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#56. Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us ...

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#57. He knows that something somewhere has to break/He sees the family home now looming in the headlights/The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache/
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage/on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

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#58. I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

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#59. If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

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#60. Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist

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#61. Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

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#62. At night a candle's brighter than the sun

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#63. If you love someone, set them free.

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#64. I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side.

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#65. Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

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#66. Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

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#67. If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

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#68. The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

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#69. The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

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#70. I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

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#71. I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

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#72. My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

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#73. I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

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#74. Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run

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#75. 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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#76. I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

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#77. Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.
(History Will Teach Us Nothing)

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#78. Every day is a brand new day!

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#79. It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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#80. 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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#81. Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

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#82. I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

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#83. 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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#84. Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

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#85. They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

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#86. Melancholy is no bad thing.

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#87. I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

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#88. I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

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#89. 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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#90. The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

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#91. Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart

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#92. Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

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#93. My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

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#94. For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

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#95. I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

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#96. Every road I walked would take me down to the sea
With every broken promise in my sack
And every love would always send the ship of my heart
Over the rolling sea

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#97. So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

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#98. 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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#99. If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

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#100. There's no religion but sex and music.

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