Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Joe Strummer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joe Strummer
Age: 50 †
Born: 1952
Born: August 21
Died: 2002
Died: December 22
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Ancyra
John Graham Mellor
Determination
Omnipotent
Educated
Unsuccessful
Careers
Tenacity
Talent
Persevere
Goal
Seekers
Common
Persist
Nothing
Persistence
Men
Perseverance
Derelict
More quotes by Joe Strummer
The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.
Joe Strummer
Don't write slogans, write truths.
Joe Strummer
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
Joe Strummer
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
Joe Strummer
The hippy movement was a failure.
Joe Strummer
People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.
Joe Strummer
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
Joe Strummer
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
Joe Strummer
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.
Joe Strummer
We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
Joe Strummer
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
Joe Strummer
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
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.
Joe Strummer
A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
Joe Strummer
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
Joe Strummer
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.
Joe Strummer
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
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.
Joe Strummer
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
Joe Strummer
There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
Joe Strummer
