Sting Quotes

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Sting

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 2, 1951

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

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I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

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

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

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

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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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Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

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I don't like singing before noon.

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

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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'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

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

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

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