[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

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

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

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

- 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 …

- Stewart Copeland

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

- 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

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

- 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 …

- Stewart Copeland