Author: Joe Strummer

Quotes

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

- Joe Strummer

To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

- Joe Strummer

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

- Joe Strummer

If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.

If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.

- Joe Strummer

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

- Joe Strummer

The hippy movement was a failure.

The hippy movement was a failure.

- Joe Strummer

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.

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

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

- Joe Strummer

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