Joe Strummer Quotes

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• 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…
• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
• It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
• The hippy movement was a failure.
• The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.
• The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.
• My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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 them.…
• We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in…
• All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
• I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one.…
• With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
• I'd like to say that people . . . people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. Show me…
• Strummer's Law: No input, no output.
• Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.
• There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.
• I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
• 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…

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