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“I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive”
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Joe Strummer
#Alive Quotes
#Messages Quotes
#Forget You Quotes
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“Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.”
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Joe Strummer
Source : "Armed Combat". Sounds Magazine Interview, July 17, 1982.
#Past Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Next Quotes
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“The future is unwritten.”
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Joe Strummer
#Reality Quotes
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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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Joe Strummer
#Nice Quotes
#Cat Quotes
#Kitchen Quotes
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“People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.”
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Joe Strummer
Source : "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2007.
#Mean Quotes
#People Quotes
#World Quotes
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“I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.”
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Joe Strummer
#Care Quotes
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“Strummer's Law: No input, no output.”
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Joe Strummer
#Law Quotes
#Input Quotes
#Output Quotes
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“The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.”
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Joe Strummer
Source : "My Dinner with Strummer". Interview with Earl Chalmers for Rude International, March 1999.
#World Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.”
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Joe Strummer
#Fun Quotes
#Alive Quotes
#Hell Quotes
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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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Joe Strummer
#Power Quotes
#Age Quotes
#Authority Quotes
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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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Joe Strummer
#Squares Quotes
#People Quotes
#Greed Quotes
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“When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees”
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Joe Strummer
#Honey Quotes
#Bees Quotes
#Killing Quotes
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“All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.”
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Joe Strummer
#Hippie Quotes
#Apathy Quotes
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“If they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.”
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Joe Strummer
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“The hippy movement was a failure.”
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Joe Strummer
#Movement Quotes
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“Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.”
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Joe Strummer
#Robots Quotes
#Speech Quotes
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“Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.”
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Joe Strummer
#Buying Quotes
#Should Quotes
#Banned Quotes
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“Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.”
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Joe Strummer
#Thinking Quotes
#Cities Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
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“There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.”
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Joe Strummer
#Techno Quotes
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“I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.”
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Joe Strummer
#Worry Quotes
#Feels Quotes
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“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'”
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Joe Strummer
#Attitude Quotes
#Rocks Quotes
#Essence Quotes
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“If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.”
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Joe Strummer
#Men Quotes
#Law Quotes
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“You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.”
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Joe Strummer
#Done Quotes
#Policemen Quotes
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“For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.”
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Joe Strummer
#Chance Quotes
#Music Is Quotes
#Vehicle Quotes
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“everybody has a story to tell”
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Joe Strummer
#Stories Quotes
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“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.”
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Joe Strummer
#Growing Up Quotes
#Crowds Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.”
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Joe Strummer
#Thinking Quotes
#Mouths Quotes
#Radio Quotes
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“You've gotta be slightly stupid.”
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Joe Strummer
#Stupid Quotes
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“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.”
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Joe Strummer
#Hate Quotes
#Kids Quotes
#Parent Quotes
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“We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!”
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Joe Strummer
#Trying Quotes
#Harder Quotes
