The Police Quotes
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I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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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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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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If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
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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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I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
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I think I'm a focus for international attention.
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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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I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
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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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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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If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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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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Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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Don't believe everything you see on VH1.