Stewart Copeland quotes
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“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.”
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“I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.”
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“Don't believe everything you see on VH1.”
-- Stewart CopelandSource : "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.
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“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 CopelandSource : "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.
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“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 CopelandSource : "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.
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“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.”
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“[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 CopelandSource : JamBase Interview, www.jambase.com. February 13, 2007.
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“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.”
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“That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.”
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“Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.”
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“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.”
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