Stewart Copeland
Stewart Copeland
Stewart Armstrong Copelandis an American musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer best known as the drummer for the English rock band The Police and for his film and video game soundtracks. He has also written various pieces of music for ballet, opera and orchestra. According to MusicRadar, Copeland’s "distinctive drum sound and uniqueness of style has made him one of the most popular drummers to ever get behind a drumset". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth16 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
But darkness makes me fumble For a key to a door Wide open
Andy lives just around the corner. We actually see quite a bit of each other, more, socially, than we ever did in the group, ... And whenever Sting is through town, or whenever I'm passing through Wiltshire, where he is, we hook up and we have a lot of laughs.
I'm the one member of the group who is the biggest fan of the group.
And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.
So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.
Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
[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.
I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.
Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.
I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.
I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.