Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Strummer Copy Share
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… — Joe Strummer Copy Share
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… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“As the floods of God Wash away sin city They say it was written In the page of the Lord But I was looking For that great jazz note That destroyed The walls of Jericho The winds of fear Whip away the sickness The messages on the tablet Was valium As the planets form That golden cross Lord I'll see… — Joe Strummer Copy Share
The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK.… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
