Sting Quotes

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People send me song lyrics all the time. It's difficult. I'm not sure what they want me to do with them. Looking at lyrics without the music is like looking at a one-legged man.

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Sometimes mediocre poetry becomes incredible song material.

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Assume you're going to make different mistakes than the ones your parents made with you, because you will.

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I tend to write the music first. If it's good music, it has a story.

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It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

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Trudie and I have been together thirty years and married eighteen. You can multiply that by seven because show business is like dog years.

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When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

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I had a pretty miserable childhood, but would I want to change it? No. Childhood made me who I am, and I'm quite happy with who I am. Without my childhood, something else would've happened.

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There's no secret to a successful marriage. I love my wife. More important than that, I really like her.

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A star fall, a phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity It's so deep, it's so wide
You're inside
Synchronicity
Effect without a cause
Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause
Synchronicity....

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Dissent is a legitimate and essential right in any democracy and modern politicians must accept this fact with tolerance. A sense of proportion — and a sense of humour — is a sign of strength, not a sign of weakness.

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Your parents name you, but they haven't a clue who you are. Your friends nickname you because they know exactly who you are.

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I never saw no military solution
That didn't always end up as something worse

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Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

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I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

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The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

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Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

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I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

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Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

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When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

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My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

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I'm pretty confessional in my creative life. I'm pretty candid and open about my preoccupations. I'm not going to reveal everything — that's pornography.

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We treat every day as it comes. Relationships aren't easy, and I don't think they're particularly natural, but we're lucky because we actually like each other.

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If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi
If you act as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity

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As a celebrity, you're told how people feel about you, whether they are informed, intelligent, or not. It's something quite rare. Most people go through life without anybody telling them what they think.

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Yes, yes, cough and Nabokov is a silly rhyme. I got such grief for that. But I did it deliberately. It was hilarious to me to put Nabokov in a song.

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Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

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For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

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Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now, looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake

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Celebrity is good for kick-starting ideas, but often celebrity is a lead weight around your neck. It's like you pointing at the moon, but people are looking at your finger.

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