John Graham Mellor (Joe Strummer) Quotes
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'.
Quotes to Explore
-
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
-
I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
-
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
-
I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
-
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
-
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
-
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
-
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
-
I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
-
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
-
I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
-
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
-
I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
-
I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.
-
One day, I want to make a PG film.
-
I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
-
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
-
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
-
God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.
-
Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.
-
I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
-
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
-
I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.
-
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'.
