Top 100 Sting Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.”

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52. “If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he’s the hero of the day.”

— Sting

53. “My logic’s been drowned in a sea of emotion.”

— Sting

54. “I don’t think happiness is necessarily the reason we’re here. I think we’re here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.”

— Sting

55. “My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.”

— Sting

56. “My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we’re singing about mortality, getting older. It’s an interesting time.”

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57. “Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don’t subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.”

— Sting

58. “I’ve never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I’m pretty balanced.”

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59. “Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.”

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60. “The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.”

— Sting

61. “I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We’re always being drawn toward the center of it because that’s where the mystery is. What is music? It’s a journey.”

— Sting

62. “I don’t need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.”

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63. “If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.”

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64. “Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.”

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65. “If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn’t destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.”

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66. “I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.”

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67. “I miss England. I miss the weather. I’ve spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I’m ready to come home.”

— Sting

68. “Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us...”

— Sting

69. “I don’t like singing before noon.”

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70. “For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.”

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71. “I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.”

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72. “Takes more than combat boots to make a man.”

— Sting

73. “An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn’t take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I’d found a friend for life.”

— Sting

74. “I’m not much of a family man. I’m just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don’t want to live my life for them.”

— Sting

75. “I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.”

— Sting

76. “I don’t understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.”

— Sting

77. “Security in human systems we’re told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we’re getting nowhere fast.”

— Sting

78. “I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.”

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79. “I’ve only paid lip service to a spiritual life.”

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80. “It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won’t listen. It’s part of the game.”

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81. “I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.”

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82. “I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.”

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83. “Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.”

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84. “I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.”

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85. “I can’t fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.”

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86. “I’m very much afraid of being mad – that’s my one fear.”

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87. “I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What’s real is for my children and the people I live with.”

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88. “I’ve spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I’d give two cheers for the Monarchy.”

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89. “I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.”

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90. “So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It’s tough – environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.”

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91. “I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.”

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92. “That sense of failure, I don’t know where people put it who don’t write songs and aren’t able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.”

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93. “I think there’s room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.”

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94. “The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.”

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95. “The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I’m given that choice, to go the way that’s not safe.”

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96. “Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.”

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97. “It’s never easy to write a song. It’s the most difficult thing I do.”

— Sting

98. “Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist.”

— Sting

99. “I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.”

— Sting

100. “I think I’m a focus for international attention.”

— Sting