Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Stewart Copeland

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Stewart Copeland.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Stewart Armstrong Copeland is an American musician and composer who rose to prominence as the drummer of the British rock band The Police. He has also produced many film and video game soundtracks and written various pieces of music for ballet, opera, and orchestra. His composing work includes the films Wall Street (1987), Men At Work (1990), Good Burger (1997), and We Are Your Friends (2015), the television series The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, and The Amanda Show, and the video games Alone in the Dark 4 and the Spyro series.

American - Musician | Born: July 16, 1952

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So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

Stewart Copeland

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

Stewart Copeland

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

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

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

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

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

Stewart Copeland

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

Stewart Copeland

I've got Arabic music in my blood.

Stewart Copeland

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

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

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

Stewart Copeland

[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

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

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

Stewart Copeland