Joe Strummer Quotes
Top 49 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth ... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.
My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.
When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.
I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.
To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up to me/Not that I can hear.
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.