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Sting [1951-0] British

Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE, known professionally as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band The Police from 1977 to 1984, before launching a solo career.

Freedom, Age, Change, Failure, Family, Fear, Fitness, Friendship, Love, Smile

Quote	Tags	Rank
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.	Smile	101
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.	Change	102
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.	Age	103
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.	Failure	104
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.		105
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.		106
I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.		107
Love is stronger than justice.	Love	108
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.	Freedom	109
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.	Fear	110
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.		111
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.	Fitness	112
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.		113
Melancholy is no bad thing.		114
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.		115
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.		116
I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.		117
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.		118
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.	Freedom	119
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.		120
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.		121
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.		122
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.		123
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.		124
I realize that nothing's as it seems.		125
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.	Friendship	126
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.		201
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.	Family	202
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.		203
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.		204
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.		205
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.		206
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.		207
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.		208
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.		209
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.		210
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.		211
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.		212
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.		213
There's no religion but sex and music.		214
I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.		215
I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.		216
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.		217
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.		218
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.		219
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.		220
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.		221
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.		222
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.		223
I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.		224
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.		225
I don't like singing before noon.		226
I think I'm a focus for international attention.		301
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.		302
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.		303
I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.		304
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.		305
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.		306
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.		307

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