Sting Quotes

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

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.

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

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

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you love somebody, set them free.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

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

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

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.

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.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

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

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

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

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

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

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

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 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

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

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.

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.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

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

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

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

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

Hell is full of high court judges.

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

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

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