Joe Strummer Quotes
With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you`re not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you`re singing and I really enjoy that!
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn`t.
Do not go in there; do not sign with this company, or you`ll end up like me - screwed and out on the street. And I am a living legend, you bastards!
“Anyway, it`s good to be sent back to the underground. There`s always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.”
`Bands must be contributing to global warming by their buses, equipment trucks and the diesel used to power the stages. Can you imagine how much CO2 the pressing and the distribution of a CD creates? What shall we do about it?``
``When freedom rises from the killing floor No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door And no kind of army can hope to win a war Like trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and spores Like trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore...``
``The way you get a better world is, you don`t put up with substandard anything.``
``All the power`s in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.``
``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 the way of hatred between nations.``
``Well, I kind of got off all that because it all seems to be such a power trip. Political people, to get elected you`ve got to be on a power trip, and you can`t trust anybody on a power trip. I can`t see a way out of this.``
``Everything`s fucked! It`s down to individual people to make life enjoyable. I don`t have anything more to say than that. I think people should avoid the world fucking them up. People are becoming too uptight, treating their children bad, being negative.``
``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 a staircase or something. There`s too much of this, `don`t do that`. The whole thing baffles me.``
``We can at least be optimistic in (that) it forces the renegades and the underground to get it together. The worse s--t gets, the more interesting the underground becomes. So I`m always quite hopeful. I believe in human beings. Human beings won`t let this happen. We won`t all end up robots working for McGiant Corp or whatever. It can`t happen.`
``People have told me songs I`ve written have changed their life. That`s remarkable. That keeps your faith.``
``Whether it`s jazz or punk or anything else, you have to fight against the purists who want to narrow the definition. That`s what kills music because it stifles it to death.``
``There`s nothing but bad news in the newspapers to make us live in a constant state of paranoia. That`s what they want because it keeps people in fear.``
``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 radio and hear something that didn`t make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.``
``I`m strange, actually, you know? 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. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.``
``I`ve got no doubt the fourth dimension exists. But is it just like the world we`re trying to escape from? I need to know if you`re allowed to smoke in there...``
Do not go in there; do not sign with this company, or you`ll end up like me - screwed and out on the street. And I am a living legend, you bastards!
Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It`s a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
Anyway, it`s good to be sent back to the underground. There`s always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you`re not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you`re singing and I really enjoy that!
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. I think it`d be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn`t.
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 fault, over there.
I think we`re going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
