Stewart Copeland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#People #Opera #Want
I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.
-- Stewart Copeland

#Technique #Favourite
Ive got Arabic music in my blood.
-- Stewart Copeland

#Blood
Don't believe everything you see on VH1.
-- Stewart Copeland

#Believe
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

#Hands #Selling #Fascists
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 Copeland

#People #Police #Way
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

#Jobs #Vision #Opera
[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

#Practice #Soul #Fool
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.
-- Stewart Copeland

#Thinking #Musician #Horizon
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
-- Stewart Copeland

#Rocks #Sirens #Whole
Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.
-- Stewart Copeland

#Looks #Want #Way
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.
-- Stewart Copeland

#Communication #School #College

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