Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer
John Graham Mellor, known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was a British musician, singer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the Clash, a punk rock band that was formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Their music also incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, and rockabilly. The Clash were one of the most prominent of the emerging bands in the UK punk rock scene,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth21 August 1952
power age authority
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
ifs
If they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
bees honey killing
When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees
law input output
Strummer's Law: No input, no output.
people want looks
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
squares should-have people
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing
world way
The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.
nice cat kitchen
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.
music rain income
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
mean people world
People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.
fun alive hell
It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
movement clash
The hippy movement was a failure.
hands people rich
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
ideas chords needed
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.