Joe Strummer Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Joe Strummer

  Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joe Strummer

  Men, Law, Ifs

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• We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

  Joe Strummer

  Trying, Harder

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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.

  Joe Strummer

  Song, Growing Up, Rain

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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.

  Joe Strummer

  Acting, Care, Illusion

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• You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

  Joe Strummer

  Done, Policemen

  "Song: 'Know Your Rights' ('Combat Rock')". 1982.

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• everybody has a story to tell

  Joe Strummer

  Stories

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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.

  Joe Strummer

  People, Looks, Want

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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.

  Joe Strummer

  Music, Rain, Income

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• I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.

  Joe Strummer

  Worry, Feels

  "7 Questions with Joe Strummer". Interview with C. Bottomley and Rebecca Shapiro, VH1.com, August 15, 2001.

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• Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.

  Joe Strummer

  Buying, Should, Banned

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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.

  Joe Strummer

  Hate, Kids, Parent

  "My Dinner with Strummer". Interview with Earl Chalmers, Rude International, March 1999.

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• I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

  Joe Strummer

  Book, Reading, Opposites

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

  Joe Strummer

  Heart, Back To Work

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• You've gotta be slightly stupid.

  Joe Strummer

  Stupid

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• What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.

  Joe Strummer

  Confused, Mean, Rocks

  "Strummer on Man, God, Law - and the Clash". Interviewed with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. January 31, 1988.

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• Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

  Joe Strummer

  Robots, Speech, Written

  "1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion". Book by Caroline Coon, 1977.

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• A lot of people... use a calculator!

  Joe Strummer

  People, Use, Calculators

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• I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

  Joe Strummer

  Thinking, Mouths, Radio

  "Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare Into The Hearts of All Things Corporate". Interview with Mariah Hasagawa, 2002.

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• All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

  Joe Strummer

  Hippie, Apathy

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• There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.

  Joe Strummer

  Techno

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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

  Responsibility, Thinking, Trying

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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.

  Joe Strummer

  Holiday, Thinking, Rocks

  "Strummer on Man, God, Law - and the Clash". Interviewed with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. January 31, 1988.

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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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  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Strummer on Man, God, Law - and the Clash". Interviewed with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. January 31, 1988.

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• The hippy movement was a failure.

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  Movement, Clash

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