Sting Quotes

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.

It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

You want to make a record that stands the test of time and that people enjoy.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.