The Police Quotes
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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 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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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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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The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
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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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I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
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One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
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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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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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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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I don't like singing before noon.
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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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It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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I've got Arabic music in my blood.
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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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If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
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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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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
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Don't believe everything you see on VH1.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.