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.
[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
[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
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.
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
Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality. - Stewart Copeland
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
Ive got Arabic music in my blood. - Stewart Copeland
Ive got Arabic music in my blood.
Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining. - Stewart Copeland
Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.
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
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 …
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
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.
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
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 …
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