Sting
Singer
1951-10-02
English musician, singer, and songwriter known as the frontman of the Police and for an extensive solo career. He has worked across rock, pop, and jazz-influenced styles.
Quotes by Sting
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If Manners maketh man, as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they
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If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere
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You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy ChurchYou could say I lost my sense of directionYou could say all of this and worse, ...Some would say I was a lost man in a lost worldYou could say I lost my faith in the people on TVYou could say I'd lost my belief in our politiciansThey all seemed like game show hosts to me...I never saw no miracle of scienceThat didn't go from a blessing to a curseI never saw no military solutionThat didn't always end up as something worse--Excerpts from If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
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Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.)
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You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy ChurchYou could say I lost my sense of directionYou could say all of this and worse, ...Some would say I was a lost man in a lost worldYou could say I lost my faith in the people on TVYou could say I'd lost my belief in our politiciansThey all seemed like game show hosts to me...I never saw no miracle of scienceThat didn't go from a blessing to a curseI never saw no military solutionThat didn't always end up as something worse--Excerpts from If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
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If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere
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Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.)
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If Manners maketh man, as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they
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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've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
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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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My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
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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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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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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
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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 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 do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
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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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