For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
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
