Joe Strummer Quotes
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I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do. The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock'n'roll for a second that I'm on holiday.
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You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
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I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
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I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
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Strummer's Law: No input, no output.
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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.
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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.
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everybody has a story to tell
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I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world... It's time to take that humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time... Think on that. Without people you're nothing.
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If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.
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I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... 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. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.
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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'
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If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.
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When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
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With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
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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.
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Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed
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We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
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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.
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When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees
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I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
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It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
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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.
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I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
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I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.
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I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive
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I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.
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If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.
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There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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