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Sting

24 quotes

A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Sting clearly understood the power of language. With equal ease, Sting moved between Music and Success, finding connections others missed. 28 of Sting's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Music, Success, Freedom, Family, and Change. A favorite of many readers: "I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should."

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

— Sting

Freedom

All Quotes by Sting

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

— Sting

Music

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

— Sting

Music

“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.”

— Sting

Change

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

— Sting

Friendship

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

— Sting

Age

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

— Sting

Change

“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.”

— Sting

Failure

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

— Sting

Respect

“I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.”

— Sting

Movies

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

— Sting

Music

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

— Sting

Family

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

— Sting

Fitness

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

— Sting

Music

“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.”

— Sting

Music

“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”

— Sting

Smile

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

— Sting

Home

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

— Sting

Music

“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.”

— Sting

Death

“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.”

— Sting

Family

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

— Sting

Fear