Sting Quotes

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

Music’s a wood you walk through.

My focus is on music. I want to be able to see the world and meet fans everywhere. I think that's the priority for me and I literally couldn't be doing anything else.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

I've been playing music most of my life.

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

It is a great life, this life of music.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

I think of language as our first music.

In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.