Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer
John Graham Mellor, known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was a British musician, singer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the Clash, a punk rock band that was formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Their music also incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, and rockabilly. The Clash were one of the most prominent of the emerging bands in the UK punk rock scene,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth21 August 1952
techno
There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.
robots speech written
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
heart back-to-work
With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
hippie apathy
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
insane bits
A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
buying should banned
Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.
hey faults causes
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.
power age authority
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
ifs
If they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
bees honey killing
When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees
law input output
Strummer's Law: No input, no output.
people want looks
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
squares should-have people
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing
world way
The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.