I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive Joe Strummer More Quotes by Joe Strummer More Quotes From Joe Strummer I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth. Joe Strummer radio mouths thinking All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. Joe Strummer apathy hippie I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really. Joe Strummer worry feels With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart. Joe Strummer back-to-work heart For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across. Joe Strummer vehicle music-is chance There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to. Joe Strummer techno You've gotta be slightly stupid. Joe Strummer stupid 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. Joe Strummer mistake people thinking The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to. Joe Strummer parent home school A lot of people... use a calculator! Joe Strummer calculators use people I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. Joe Strummer crowds growing-up want 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. Joe Strummer letting-go people interesting There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in. Joe Strummer music running world The hippy movement was a failure. Joe Strummer clash movement 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. Joe Strummer italian book thinking What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that! Joe Strummer you enjoy singing beer We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't. Joe Strummer rock singer you pretending I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones. Joe Strummer our even records proud 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. Joe Strummer looking great white time 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 you power wisdom age
