Joe Strummer Quotes

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• Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing
• I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
• If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.
• I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive
• I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
• Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute,…
• Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
• For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
• I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.
• I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
• Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'
• If they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
• When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his…
• Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
• The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
• A lot of people... use a calculator!
• Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it…
• If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the…
• We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
• When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

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