Joe Strummer Quotes

• People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.

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• The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

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• 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.

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• All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

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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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• If you ain’t thinkin’ about man and God and law, then you ain’t thinkin’ about nothin’.

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• The hippy movement was a failure.

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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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• With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

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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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• What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you’re not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you’re singing and I really enjoy that!

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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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• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn’t.

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• I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, ’cause I’ve got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one… now a British one. I think it’d be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

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• Anyway, it’s good to be sent back to the underground. There’s always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

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Joe Strummer (15)

Birth:	21st August, 1952
Death:	22nd December, 2002
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician, Singer, Songwriter

About

John Graham Mellor, known by his stage name Joe Strummer was born in Ankara, Turkey. He was an English musician, singer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the Clash, a punk rock band formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. His albums list shown below: Earthquake Weather and Global Agogo. His albums list (with The Clash) shown below: The Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope, London Calling, Sandinista!, Combat Rock, and Cut the Crap. His role in several films include: Rude Boy, Walker (also musician), Straight to Hell, Candy Mountain, Mystery Train, The Clash (documentary film), End of the Century (documentary film), and Let's Rock Again! (documentary film). He studied at Central School of Art and Design in London.

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