Stewart Copeland Quotes

• That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

  Stewart Copeland

  Rocks, Sirens, Whole

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• Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

  Stewart Copeland

  Thinking, Musician, Horizon

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• Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

  Stewart Copeland

  Hands, Selling, Easier

  "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• [If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

  Stewart Copeland

  Practice, Soul, Fool

  JamBase Interview, www.jambase.com. February 13, 2007.

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• Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

  Stewart Copeland

  Believe, Don't Believe

  "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

  Stewart Copeland

  Looks, Want, Way

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• People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

  Stewart Copeland

  People, Police, Band

  "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.

  Stewart Copeland

  Communication, School, College

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• Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

  Stewart Copeland

  Blood

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• I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

  Stewart Copeland

  Technique, Favourite, Duplicate

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• I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.

  Stewart Copeland

  Rap, Artist, People

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• The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

  Stewart Copeland

  Jobs, Vision, Opera

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• In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

  Stewart Copeland

  People, Events, Opera

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