Sting receives the Polar Music Prize 2017 

Sting is a class apart. He's a category in himself. There are no comparisons. He's incomparable. His music transcends generations and spirit. He's a poet. Fees a musician. He's a songwriter. He's a father. He's a friend. He's a lover. He's a Yogi. He's human. His music makes you feel he's part of your intimate life.

I'm one of the lucky ones to meet him (recently) in an unofficial setting and yes, I thanked him!!😃

I am a huge Beatle fan and always will be. I love Pink Floyd, all four of them together, and not apart. Even Elvis still moves me but Sting is the embodiment of all. He knows his music will forever be, as it is recorded, enjoyed and stored, into the joyful, serene, place, in all our hearts.

Sting in spite of all the rewards you got you are so humble your soul is so beautiful 😍

A great song writer and musician! One of the best ever. Rolling Stones didn’t name him as one of the top 100 song writers in Rock. What a joke is that magazine! He is one of the top 5 never mind top 100.

Can never tire of Sting's music. A well deserved award. 😇

I love Sting....yes he made me aware of the environment back in the 80s and his voice music is stunning

So handsome! It is evident he is moved by this award, the songs sung and words stated.

STING, my favorite man! Have loved your music since always. Congrats you so deserve it🧕🏾🖐🏽🇱🇷🤦🏾‍♀️❤

Sting deserve that prize bringing so much joy to human race...with total dedication . Long life Sting to compose even more shocking songs...

"all of us make mistakes..." what a lovely speech direction...

I LOVE Sting! Congrats!

Well done, Sting ,, so well deserved !! .. my all time musical genius & probably one of the only musicians whose music I have consciously connected with :)

Jose is perfect to present this award to Sting Bravo Sir Sting ......Congrat s to a wonderful man and a great Musician some one I have always admired and learn t from !!Bravo

Sting 🐝 what a awesome artist, singer, musician! What a great gift to the world! Jose Faliciano is awesome all by himself!

what a lovely man Jose is

Congratulations! Thank you for your words and music....one of the best!

A treasure to humanity....this man.

Brilliant to see Jose again, he made some great music.

Best acceptance speech I have heard.

I so admire what he stands for he is a musical Everyman and he cares about this blue jewel we live upon THE EARTH.

Silence is The Source of Everything. So eternally wise♥️

Living music legend and genius.

Very dear to watch this man humbly and beautifuly accept this well-deserved award

His wife looks so proud ♥️♥️

" no such thing as a wrong note" improvisation is key. Silence is key

Sting a great artist in all aspects!!!

Very Good for both: Sting and Jose Feliciano... Congratulacions for being part of our music... I admire them very much...and like their voices...

one word ; LEGEND !

What an admirable, intelligent and beautiful mind... “...we frame the silences...”

Bless this man and what a beautiful soul to give such a soul free tribute to a fellow talent and legend

You are blessed! ❤

There is no such thing as a wrong note (or mistake). It's what you do after that that matters. Oh.My.God.

great speech from the man who's responsible for me being in music!

Grande José Feliciano 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

THank you for your Music and thank you for your Living example of being fully creative and member with your specialities, it encouraged me to try the unthinkable...

Congratulations and well-deserved!

Nobody deserves this prize more than Sting - he is a Living legend

Ever so beautiful!

José is joking all the time about his blindness and people do not get it. He can't read, he can't see, and he insists in that he is going to read, and people do not get it or do not find it funny. Well done, José Feliciano, you are great too, and have made us happy with your music since the sixties.

. from user ➖➖▶"Sting's point about silence in music is fascinatingly put. 8.22 - 9.30. And Jose's words and effort are phenomenal."

Wish I could have received a mere sprinkle of talent Sting got. Oh well, at least we all get to enjoy his music.

Bless him for his music with wonderful messages.

Well deserved. Ive came to like The Police and specially Sting since 1981, maybe because Bob Marley has just past, and Sting and Andy Summers reminded me Bob Marley and Carlton Barrett. Then I loved Sting until today

thank You Sting for inspiration in investigation of Music composition Your Music is new eon in future of Music

Great musician, great advise, super orchestra specially miss petra and mr. nils, you made my day sir. thank you

wow jose feliciano...awesome!

Many musical harbours - very nice.

As a Sting fan of 40 years, I've defended him more times than I can remember... mainly against accusations that he's an egomaniac. I've always felt those accusations said more about the accuser than about Sting. I hope the people who still criticize him see this video. If you're just utterly cynical, then I suppose nothing will change your mind, but I think most will see a genuinely humble and appreciative man here.

I love how is wife looks at him while he speaks...

Thanks....you are the great one

Bravo Sting

I love his music!! My man sting!!!

En Hora buena, Sting mientras DIOS NOS permite enterarnos de estos reconocimiento q se te hacen en Vida "Maestro" y hablar del "Maestro" José Feliciano que sensibilidad para expresar su postura en este Merecido Reconocimiento. En Hora buena súper músicos.

was für ein wunderbarer Mann

Bravo Sting!

Great honor for a great artist.

It's just an big honor to be in one of his concerts...

Congrats Sting. Yo are the best musician in your genere! ❤

So modest!!

Just saw Last Ship last night in Toronto for his last night performance. Magical, powerful, emotional and poignant. The greatest artist of our times.

My gorgeous guy ... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

BRAVO! BRAVO *Sting* Gordon Sommner, BRAVO!

José Feliciano!

Pour moi , le meilleur compositeur et chanteur Anglais

Bi-Polar Music Prize!!! .... his heads so full of it! his hair cant take it!!! they had to give him another award! He knows hes Gods gift to Music! ..gota give him a Freakin prize! ... guess they had to give Jose F a gig after all these years! ...best part of this tragic dilemma!

So proud to know of you. ETTa Davis.

Aaron Copeland also spoke about silences...as in the reflection at the conclusion of one piece and the anticipation of the next.

Meraviglioso il discorso di Sting! Lo riporto... "In hearing these welcome comments I've come to realize that popular music in all its forms has managed to create a soundtrack to peaple's life memories the prompts and musical cues for their personal emotional landscapes. This is as surprising to me as it is nourishing for these seemingly commonplace events I am most grateful. What have I learned as a musician? The most significant piece os musical advice I was ever given was from the great arranger Gil Evans who told me this: - Sting, there is no such thing as a wrong note is always the note that follows that will define whether the first note was wrong or not. - After some thoughts I realize that this was profound advice not only in the context of music but also in life. All of us make mistakes, but is how we react to those apparent mistakes in what follows that defines our human intelligence, our ability to adapt to improvise and to evolve. I can only claim one and only one nugget of musical truth in my own thinking, it is this that in the composition of music Silence is every bit as important as sound, equally important to note value, tomber and pitch. In my own work I've attempted to allow murders to breed uncluttered by dense layers of sound whenever possible a deering to the old maxim that Less Is More and so I've come to believe that if there is such a thing as a perfect music not perfect music may well be this, Silence, and all that we do as musicians is create a frame and hopefully a beautiful frame around that perfection that we call Silence.

Knighthood......Sir Sting !!!, or Sir Gordon Sumner...He'd prefer the first one I think!

"Music's only as fine as the silence it's compared to. "Sharing the two, we can hear..." TO THE SEA Bill Champlin, 1976.

"I AM NOT WHAT I AM"...

A great musician v.inspirational .greatful to life !! V.grounded .

Jose Feliciano is also a great musical genuis!

It took me three minutes to notice he was reading braille.

I love sting he's music is awesome 👌 👏 👍

Fantastico.

pinche Sting ni q cagara tan ancho el premio selo dió un grande músico el gran José Feliciano

Paul McCartney and Sting, two greats.

Sting är enastående!

J'avoue ma déception de ne pas avoir un Anglais suffisamment compétent pour pouvoir comprendre cet hommage rendu à cet immense talentueux chanteur et musicien Sting (à revoir vos traductions en temps réel...Merci !)

Hermoso 🥰🥰🥰Sting

Viva sting..

Sting, Receba as homenagens, também de todos nós brasileiros, da sua segunda terra, venha sempre....

Dios te bendiga gracias

Alguien me traduce en un resumen por favor. Gracias!

..the space in between your notes are more important than the notes you are playing....

digno de admiracion leyendo con los dedos

So worth it....

Sting just got stung.

BLUE BLOOD.

fantastiskt tal!!

Whey aye man

nice!

Congratulations Mr. Gordon Sumner. You are a living legend. Besides am I the only one who thinks the JF speech was kind of awkward? I do not have problems with Mr. Feliciano, I have problems who directed this event.

no mention of his band mates?...don't think he'd be at this level without the police "sound"...

Sting, venha tomar umas raízes.ok.

Was this speech before or after that Jose dude butchered Stings song?

Its been so long... now i gota do every breath i take ...and now im sorry.. gota hand this bi-polar award to this ole tady ... but it really doesnt matter anyhow!

Anyone know who the couple is sitting next to them? I know their faces but cant put my finger on the names