The Police Quotes
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I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
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I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
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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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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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It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
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One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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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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I don't like singing before noon.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
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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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My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
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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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I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
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I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
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It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.