Sting Quotes
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Quotes to Explore
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The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
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There's no religion but sex and music.
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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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I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
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When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
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I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
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I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
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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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Melancholy is no bad thing.
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Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
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Love is stronger than justice.
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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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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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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
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I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
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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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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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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 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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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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If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
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I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.