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
music rain income
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
fun alive hell
It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
movement clash
The hippy movement was a failure.
hands people rich
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
ideas chords needed
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.
father hatred tolerance
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.
done policemen
You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
tough honest being-honest
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.
writing slogans
Don't write slogans, write truths.
attitude essence rocks
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'
messages alive forget
I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive
men law ifs
If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.
I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.
hate kids parent
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.