Joe Strummer Quotes
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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.
— Joe Strummer
A lot of people... use a calculator!
— Joe Strummer
You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
— Joe Strummer
I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.
— Joe Strummer
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing
— Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
— Henry Rollins
There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.
— Joe Strummer
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'
— Joe Strummer
We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
— Joe Strummer
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
— Joe Strummer
If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.
— Joe Strummer
everybody has a story to tell
— Joe Strummer
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.
— Joe Strummer
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
— Joe Strummer
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
— Joe Strummer
Without people, you're nothing.
— Joe Strummer
He (Joe Strummer) was one of the great English rock stars, bold and influential beyond reckoning. We could do with another one like him, right now.
— David Sinclair
The future is unwritten.
— Joe Strummer
With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
— Joe Strummer
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
— Carla Bruni
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
— Joe Strummer
There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
— Joe Strummer
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.
— Joe Strummer
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.
— Joe Strummer
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
— Joe Strummer
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.
— Joe Strummer
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
— Joe Strummer
Don't write slogans, write truths.
— Joe Strummer
I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
— Joe Strummer
You've gotta be slightly stupid.
— Joe Strummer
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.
— Joe Strummer
I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
— Joe Strummer
The hippy movement was a failure.
— Joe Strummer
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
— Joe Strummer
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
— Joe Strummer