--- title: "3 Jerry Dammers Quotes - Famous Songwriter" description: "Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers is a British musician who was a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry-based ska band the Special..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jerry-dammers-49069.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Jerry Dammers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jerry-dammers-49069.jpg) # Jerry Dammers (1955) Songwriter United Kingdom **3** quotes in **20** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Jerry Dammers is a songwriter from the United Kingdom. ## Quick Facts About Jerry Dammers Born May 22, 1955 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Songwriter ## About Jerry Dammers Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers is a British musician who was a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry-based ska band the Specials and later the Spatial AKA Orchestra. Through his foundation of the record label Two Tone, his work blending political lyrics and punk with Jamaican music, and his incorporation of 1960s retro clothing, Dammers is a pivotal figure of the ska revival. He has also been acknowledged in his work for racial unity. ## Quotes by Jerry Dammers > [I was a very young mod. The older mods at school used to like me because I brought in a copy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-dammers/i-was-a-very-young-mod-the-older-mods-at-school-used-to-like-me/) Jerry Dammers [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/383/jerry-dammers-78880_age_i-was-a-very-young-mod-the-older-mods-at_107526.jpg) > [I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-dammers/i-was-the-specials-founder-main-songwriter-and-keyboard-player/) Jerry Dammers [Entrepreneurship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/entrepreneurship/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/jerry-dammers-78880_entrepreneurship_i-was-the-specials-founder-main-songwrit_1852823.jpg) > [When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-dammers/when-i-was-a-school-kid-in-coventry-i-used-to-put-up-anti-apartheid/) Jerry Dammers [Apartheid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apartheid/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/jerry-dammers-78880_apartheid_when-i-was-a-school-kid-in-coventry-i-us_2809818.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-dammers/#itemlist", "name": "Jerry Dammers Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was a very young mod. 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