Stewart Copeland Quotes

I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

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

I've got Arabic music in my blood.

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.

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.

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

[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.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

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.