Stewart Copeland Quotes
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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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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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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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Don't believe everything you see on VH1.
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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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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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I've got Arabic music in my blood.
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And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.
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I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.
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So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.
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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.