Best 41 quotes of Joe Strummer on MyQuotes

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

A lot of people... use a calculator!

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

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

Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

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.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

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.

I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world... It's time to take that humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time... Think on that. Without people you're nothing.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.

I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.

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.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.

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'

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

The future is unwritten.

The hippy movement was a failure.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up to me/Not that I can hear.