Stewart Copeland Quotes

#1. There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

Keith Richards

#2. The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.

Taylor Hawkins

#3. Jesus wants us to love Him in a way that gives Him full leadership over our lives.

Mike Bickle

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

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. I've got Arabic music in my blood.

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#9. I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days.

Ashley Wagner

#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.

Stewart Copeland

#11. When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett
as told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett

Samuel Beckett

#12. 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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#13. [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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#14. 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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#15. What's compelling isn't simply that Facebook enabled us to be our own Big Brother; what's compelling is how we jumped at the chance. We were given a choice, and we rejected privacy.

Dave Cicirelli

#16. 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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#17. Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

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#18. QUIET NOW, MONKEY-CHILD. DREAM.

Jay Kristoff

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

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#20. Whosoever is determined to seek guidance and follow a path of right conduct must search for a shaykh from amongst those who have realization, one who follows a path methodically, who has abandoned his passions, and who has firmly established his feet in the service of his Lord.

Ibn Ata Allah

#21. I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

Jeremy Lin

#22. Before all hope died I used to have this stupid dream that shit could be saved, that we would be in bed together like the old times, with the fan on, the smoke from our weed drifting above us, and I'd finally try to say the words that could have saved us.

Junot Diaz

#23. 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.

Stewart Copeland

#24. Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

Rumi

#25. I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

M.J. Rose

#26. Her breath caught in her throat. No, she

Nicholas Sparks

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

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