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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/i-studied-music-for-my-first-two-years-in-college-when-i-went-to-uc/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

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## More by Stewart Copeland

> [Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/music-has-an-immediate-effect-if-you-want-to-go-beyond-that-and-look/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/making-music-has-gotten-easier-selling-it-has-gotten-harder-making/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

> [And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/and-the-general-opinion-is-we-are-much-better-on-stage-than-in-the/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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;… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/if-you-don-t-have-any-soul-and-you-don-t-have-any-talent-jazz-is-what/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/in-a-film-score-the-last-thing-you-want-to-do-is-take-people-out-of/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

> [Ive got Arabic music in my blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/ive-got-arabic-music-in-my-blood/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

> [So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/so-i-suppose-that-means-we-can-actually-play-the-instruments/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

> [I've got Arabic music in my blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/i-ve-got-arabic-music-in-my-blood/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

> [I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/i-d-rather-duplicate-it-myself-another-of-our-favourite-techniques/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

> [I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/i-studied-music-for-my-first-two-years-in-college-when-i-went-to-uc/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/drummers-shouldn-t-just-think-of-themselves-as-drummers-if-you-re/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/people-are-disappointed-when-they-hear-my-american-accent-because/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

> [ 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,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/i-don-t-have-any-sympathy-for-the-subject-matter-but-i-have-great/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

> [Don't believe everything you see on VH1.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/don-t-believe-everything-you-see-on-vh1/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-copeland/the-great-opera-composers-were-so-good-at-their-job-that-the-whole/)

[Stewart Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-copeland/)

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