Sting Quotes
36 quotations by Sting
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs. |
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around. |
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun. |
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way. |
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. |
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. |
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll. |
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like. |
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. |
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. |
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening. |
I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy. |
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life. |
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. |
I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years. |
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. |
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. |
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. |
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. |
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga. |
I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them. |
I think I'm a focus for international attention. |
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. |
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised. |
I realize that nothing's as it seems. |
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home. |
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. |
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. |
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while. |
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. |
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it. |
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. |
I don't like singing before noon. |
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like. |
I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform. |
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. |