Stewart Copeland

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

— Stewart Copeland

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

— Stewart Copeland

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

— 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…

— Stewart Copeland

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary.…

— Stewart Copeland

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

— Stewart Copeland

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

— Stewart Copeland

I've got Arabic music in my blood.

— Stewart Copeland

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

— Stewart Copeland

I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stewart Copeland

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

— Stewart Copeland

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of…

— Stewart Copeland

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

— Stewart Copeland