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Justice & Law Quote by Steven Adler

"If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll"

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Adler’s jab lands because it punctures rock’s favorite self-myth: that the band is a sacred brotherhood and the breakup a principled divorce. He drags reunion culture back down to the level it usually occupies behind the press releases - ego, money, boredom, and the inconvenient fact that adults can show up to work with people they can’t stand. Calling Sting “one of the biggest jerks” isn’t just gossip; it’s a strategic demystification. If even The Police, whose tensions are practically part of their brand, can cash the check and share a stage, then the moral grandeur attached to “we could never” starts to look like theater.

The name-dropping is doing real work. The Police and the Eagles are shorthand for the canonical, high-profile hate-to-love reunions - proof that rancor doesn’t disqualify professionalism. Adler’s “If he can do it, anyone can do it” flips the usual reverence for rock geniuses into a blue-collar ethic: you don’t need spiritual alignment, just a calendar and a contract.

Context matters because Adler isn’t speaking as a distant critic; he’s a survivor of rock’s messiest ecosystem, where grudges become mythology and addictions, lawsuits, and control battles fracture bands into factions. Underneath the bluntness is a plea for sobriety - emotional and financial. Stop pretending reconciliation is enlightenment. It’s a gig. And if it’s “just rock and roll,” then maybe the reunion isn’t a betrayal of authenticity so much as an admission that authenticity was always partly a pose.

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Adler, Steven. (2026, January 14). If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-the-police-could-do-a-reunion-one-of-the-82180/

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Adler, Steven. "If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll." FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-the-police-could-do-a-reunion-one-of-the-82180/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-the-police-could-do-a-reunion-one-of-the-82180/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Steven Adler

Steven Adler (born January 22, 1965) is a Musician from USA.

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