(38 quotes found)
“I dream of rain I dream of gardens in the desert sand I wake in vain I dream of love as time runs through my hand”
Sting
“When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.”
“I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.”
“I'm bored with music between 1955 and 1980. I'm completely bored. I can't listen to a rock and roll record. I can't do it. I would rather listen to hogs screwing.”
“I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.”
“There's a hole in my life.”
“I think I've always had a sort of fantasy or dream that I would like to make a living playing music. It seemed to be the most noble thing I could imagine. I had no idea how it was done but I always had this belief that music, no matter who you were playing to, was always going to be nourishing to me.”
“Songwriting is a kind of therapy for both the writer and the listener if you choose to use it that way . When you see that stuff help other people that’s great and wonderful confirmation that you’re doing the right thing.”
“I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.”
“Chris looks like something from the Renaissance, sort of like a Botticelli,”
