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London Calling - Yes, I was there, too, And you know what they said? Well some of it was true. London Calling at the top of the dial... And after all this, won't you give me a smile?
Joe Strummer
No man's land. There ain't no asylum here. King Solomon he never lived 'round here.
Joe Strummer
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.
Joe Strummer
I was trying to prove that I was the Clash and it wasn't Mick (Jones). I learned that that was kind of dumb. I learned that it wasn't anybody, except maybe a great chemistry between us four, and I really learned it was over the day we sacked Topper, and not the day we sacked Mick. There was quite some time between them. We played a whole tour between those times. But it was the day we sacked Tops.
Joe Strummer
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.
Joe Strummer
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.
Joe Strummer
I think that the corporation is running it and will always make it appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
Joe Strummer
I kept trying to stress that - "Hang on, we're be-bop guys, we're down in the alley on 57th Street. We're not in there with John Reed and "Ten Days That Shook the World." We'd be in the alley with (Charlie) Parker shooting up junk. That's where we were at really.
Joe Strummer
Singing into a cold wind is the worst nightmare for any singer. You could hear it in the voice.
Joe Strummer
I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily I came in here for that special offer A guaranteed personality.
Joe Strummer
I have a big legacy of The Clash to live up to and I don't intend to uriny on a legend. I intend to build forward into the next century. The music has to be by the musicians, and there's too much changing things by the record company. I got a message for everyone in a record company: We don't care if you lose your job! You ruin music and I'll get all the smoothers out off the way, the people who smooth the sound off. Let the musicians have the music the way they want it, and not the way you think the grandmothers and 3-year olds will gonna buy it. Cause this is not about 3-year olds or grandmothers... This is Rock and Roll!
Joe Strummer
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.
Joe Strummer
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.
Joe Strummer
The men at the factory are old and cunning You don't owe nothing, so boy get running It's the best years of your life they want to steal.
Joe Strummer
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.'
Joe Strummer
The future is unwritten.
Joe Strummer
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed.
Joe Strummer
I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.
Joe Strummer
If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.
Joe Strummer
With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
Joe Strummer
To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - 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
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
Joe Strummer
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