It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.
StingRead
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
Interpretation
Creativity can arise from genuine experiences rather than forced negativity.
In this quote, Sting emphasizes that true creativity does not require the artificial inflating of emotional struggles or trauma. Instead, he suggests that authentic experiences of sadness or emotional distress can provide ample inspiration for artistic expression, highlighting the importance of genuine feelings over manufactured hardship.
In practice
A speaker at an art workshop may use this quote to encourage participants to embrace their true feelings.
It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
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.
There's no religion but sex and music.
It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
Design has to work. Art does not.
Tragedy is the highest form of art.
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