Joe Strummer

“And so now I'd like to say - people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world.…

— Joe Strummer

Don't write slogans, write truths.

— Joe Strummer

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

— Joe Strummer

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,…

— Joe Strummer

I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's…

— Joe Strummer

“You ain’t alive and kicking unless you’re fighting.”

— Joe Strummer

You don't write on tour; it takes all your concentrating to make the gig - that's survival technique. Afterwards, you run around…

— Joe Strummer

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

— Joe Strummer

The future is unwritten.

— Joe Strummer

The only place I considered home was the boarding school in Yorkshire my parents sent me to. It's easier, isn't it? I…

— Joe Strummer

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

— Joe Strummer

I'd like to say that people . . . people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the…

— Joe Strummer

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

— Joe Strummer

There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.

— Joe Strummer

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

— Joe Strummer

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of…

— Joe Strummer

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

— Joe Strummer

If they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

— Joe Strummer

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now…

— Joe Strummer

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your…

— Joe Strummer

The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

— Joe Strummer

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

— Joe Strummer

“We’d play to old age pensioners if they’d have us but we don’t have to. The Stones are taking care of that…

— Joe Strummer

I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned…

— Joe Strummer

We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers…

— Joe Strummer