Joe Strummer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Joe Strummer quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased musician born on Aug 21, 1952). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 23 we have for him.
“The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.”
“I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.”
“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.”
“When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.”
“The only place I considered home was the boarding school in Yorkshire my parents sent me to. It's easier, isn't it? I mean, it gets kids out the way, doesn't it?”
“Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.”
“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'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.”
“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.”
“I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight. I stayed with my mum, but I felt it was a bit soft with her. I could do whatever I liked, and I wasn't getting nowhere, so I went to stay with my dad.”
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