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

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 with other instruments.

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 all the way.

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

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

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

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.

Ive 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.

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.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

I said, names aren't important, " he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?"Will shook his head."Supper is important!

We all make mistakes. It is important to learn from them and just as important to know when to move on.

i can’t always tell what’s betterlong drivesin the star-spangled desertsor long walksalong winding tea gardens.

Two things you should never do in a hurry: make up and revenge.

Life is stressful, dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.