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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."
"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."
"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."
Explore more quotes by Sting
"I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like."
"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."
"I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back."
"I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy."
"The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment."
"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."
"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."
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