Joe Strummer Quotes
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Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.
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You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
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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.
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I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.
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I'd just like to say to everybody that it's best to check out the independent life: the independent stores and the independent everybodies. We should try not to give our money to any corporations, if we can help it.
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from CD Now (September 1999) with Jason Gross
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I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.
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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
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I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.
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The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being. Fuck being an asshole, what you pussies thought it was twenty years ago.
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Singing into a cold wind is the worst nightmare for any singer. You could hear it in the voice.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.
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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.
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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.
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The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.
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We got all the influences for it Global a Go-Go from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.
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I think you have to grow up and realise that we're facing religious fanatics who would kill everyone in the world who doesn't do what they say. The more time you give them the more bombs they'll get. Bin Laden is going to try and kill more people. It helps the fanatics.
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No man's land. There ain't no asylum here.King Solomon he never lived 'round here.
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I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social (stuff), all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin'. I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?
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The men at the factory are old and cunning
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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 warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.
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For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.