Joe Strummer Quotes - Page 2

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

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

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

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

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.

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

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.

everybody has a story to tell

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You've gotta be slightly stupid.

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.

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

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

A lot of people... use a calculator!

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

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

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.

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.

The hippy movement was a failure.