Song Quotes by Joe Strummer

everybody has a story to tell

— Joe Strummer

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

— Joe Strummer

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

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

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

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

There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

— Joe Strummer

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

“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

I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

— Joe Strummer

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

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

— Joe Strummer

A lot of people... use a calculator!

— Joe Strummer

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.

— Joe Strummer

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

— Joe Strummer