English - Musician | August 21, 1952 - December 22, 2002
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 realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.
Joe Strummer
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You don't write on tour; it takes all your concentrating to make the gig - that's survival technique. Afterwards, you run around town to find interesting hipsters and go to all the interesting spots. You got to go to every hotspot until everything has closed down.
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I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
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The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
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All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
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I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
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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.
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I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight. I stayed with my mum, but I felt it was a bit soft with her. I could do whatever I liked, and I wasn't getting nowhere, so I went to stay with my dad.
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We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
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I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.
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When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.
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Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.
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