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.
[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.
Ive got Arabic music in my blood. - Stewart Copeland
Ive got Arabic music in my blood.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Don't believe everything you see on VH1. - Stewart Copeland
Don't believe everything you see on VH1.
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