Sting Quotes

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You don't have to be the greatest singer in the world. What you need to be is unique.

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You can be born Elvis Presley. But Reg Dwight is not going to make it unless he has this ritual where he becomes Elton John.

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I've got the same rank as James Bond. Commander of the British Empire. It used to span the whole world, from Britain to India and including America. But now it's the size of a postage stamp.

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Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

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It's my job to sing a song I wrote thirty years ago as if I'd written it in the afternoon.

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I thought when my kids got to twenty-one, that would be it, you know? They'd be out the door. We'd never have to worry about them again. But I have a thirty-two-year-old, and I still worry about him like he's a little boy.

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If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

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Music has ceased to belong to the young... The rock rebel is defunct. He's meaningless.

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Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically.

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With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity
A sleep trance, a dream dance,
A shared romance
Synchronicity A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible

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Gratitude is the fundamental emotion that one should feel in a state of grace.

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A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy, when it is really fortune's accomplice. A risk you take may seem ridiculous to other people, but risk isn't random or rash when it's a necessity.

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