Sting frasi celebri
Non ho nessun rimpianto, ma non è stata un'infanzia felice. In qualche modo questo disco [If on a Winter's Night] riflette quel periodo della mia vita quando, d'inverno, accompagnavo mio padre a consegnare il latte nelle case e fantasticavo su quello che sarebbe stato il mio futuro, sul mio diventare musicista, sull'avere una famiglia. Sognare fa bene perché, a forza di farlo, a volte i sogni si avverano: a me è successo. Sto ancora vivendo un sogno. Qualcuno, prima o poi, mi sveglierà.
Se incominci a costruire muri intorno a te per tenere lontana la realtà, finisci come Michael Jackson.
Il matrimonio è un'istituzione molto complicata. La cosa più importante è che a me mia moglie piace. Capisce la differenza? Non è solo amore, è che una persona ti deve piacere anche per le cose che dice, per quello che pensa. La cosa difficile è mantenere nel tempo questi sentimenti perché le persone cambiano e allora devi adattarti, non puoi essere rigido. Naturalmente io non sono il marito perfetto e lei non è la moglie perfetta, ma insieme navighiamo. Trudie è la mia migliore amica. Siamo della stessa generazione, abbiamo avuto un'educazione simile, esperienze simili.
“Se "le maniere fanno l'uomo" come qualcuno ha detto | allora lui è un eroe del giorno.”
...Nothing Like the Sun
Origine: Sting, parlando contro la BREXIT: "We are a parliamentary democracy; we don’t function by plebiscite. It’s dangerous. I don’t believe in referendums – Hitler and Mussolini organised referendums" - express.co.uk "‘A DISASTER!’ Brexit TORN APART by Sting - ‘I hope it WON’T HAPPEN - it’s all LIES’" Mon, May 6, 2019)
Sting: Frasi in inglese
“Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake”
"Synchronicity II"
Synchronicity (1983)
Contesto: Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
“I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side…"
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Origine: Nothing Like the Sun
“Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos.”
On the song Synchronicity II, as quoted in "Official Police business" by Jay Cocks, in TIME magazine (15 August 1983), p. 50
Contesto: Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically.
“With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity”
"Synchronicity I"
Synchronicity (1983)
Contesto: With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity
A sleep trance, a dream dance,
A shared romance
Synchronicity A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake”
"Synchronicity II"
Synchronicity (1983)
Contesto: Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now, looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
“A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible”
"Synchronicity I"
Synchronicity (1983)
Contesto: With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity
A sleep trance, a dream dance,
A shared romance
Synchronicity A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Joining with Amnesty International in condemning the Russian authorities’ treatment of Pussy Riot, a Russian punk rock protest band. "Sting condemns Russia's treatment of Pussy Riot musicians ahead of Moscow concert" Amnesty International (25 July 2012) http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/sting-condemns-russias-treatment-pussy-riot-musicians-ahead-moscow-concert-2012-07-25
"Synchronicity I"
Synchronicity (1983)
Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.