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'.

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

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• 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.

  

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• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

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• 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.

  

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• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

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• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

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• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

  

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• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

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• Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

  

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• The hot radio medium used in cool or nonliterate cultures has a violent effect, quite unlike its effect, say in England or America, where radio is felt as entertainment. (p. 30)

  

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• The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.

  

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• The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.

  

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• 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'.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Truth
  • Attitude
  • Punk Rock