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Joe Strummer
Age: 50 †
Born: 1952
Born: August 21
Died: 2002
Died: December 22
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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John Graham Mellor
Everybody
Story
Tell
Stories

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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.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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The future is unwritten.
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Don't write slogans, write truths.
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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.
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I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
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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.
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The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.
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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.
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
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Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.
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A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
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With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
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There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.
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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
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I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
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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.
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People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.
Joe Strummer