Sting quotes

There's no religion but sex and music.

A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

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 can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

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'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

If you love someone, set them free.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

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.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

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.

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

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

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

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 don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

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

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

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.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

If you love somebody, set them free.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

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

One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time - a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that...It is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

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.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

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.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

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.

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

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

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

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

Every breath you take and every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I'll be watchin' you Every single day and every word you say Every game you play, every night you stay I'll be watchin' you

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

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

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

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.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us.

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

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

Yoga has enriched my life...It is a great way to offset the downsides of touring by bringing much-needed peace and sanity into what can be a hectic life. Like music, yoga is a journey - one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

I don't like singing before noon.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

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

Love is stronger than justice.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

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.

What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

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.

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

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

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run

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

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

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.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Hell is full of high court judges.

Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold