Strummer Quotes

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer. (Carla Bruni)
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it. View quote
Moby
Joe Strummer, God bless him, he's gone and he shall be missed. But how dare he preach class war with an organisation like that [the late '80s Rock Against The Rich movement]. Living in a huge house in Holland Park. Every photo opportunity to be seen on a bus in his leather jacket, and then he went back to a palace. You're not getting it quite right there! That's where his image mattered more to him than the reality. He was trying to con us. In a nice way and for the right reasons but once you start lying it carries on and on and on. View quote
John Lydon
In the history of the world (cheap edition) I'm a sublimated Aladdin, the thousand and second Knight, a Strand-Magazine strummer. In the eyes of «those who know» I failed badly in attempting a piece of work which a little more resolution would have pushed through, or left un-touched. View quote
T. E. Lawrence