Top 127 Quotes & Sayings by Sting

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.

British - Musician | Born: October 2, 1951

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Melancholy is no bad thing.

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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.

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I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

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Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

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Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

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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.

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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

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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.

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I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

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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.

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I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

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I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

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When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

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I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

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I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

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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.

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Love is stronger than justice.

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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

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I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

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The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

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I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

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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.

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I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

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I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

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I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

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I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

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I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

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The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

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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.

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I think I'm a focus for international attention.

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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.

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I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

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My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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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.

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I don't like singing before noon.

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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.

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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.

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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

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One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

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If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

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I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

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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.

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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.

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I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

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I realize that nothing's as it seems.

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I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

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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.

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I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

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I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

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Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

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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.

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There's no religion but sex and music.

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If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

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