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Joe Strummer Biography

John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was a Turkish-born English musician, singer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the Clash, a punk rock band formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk.

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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.

Book, Italian, Thinking, American, Pretty, Good

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

Bits, Insane, Intelligence, Slight, Time

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.

Nice, Cat, Kitchen, Hear, Turn, Done

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Robot, Robots, Speech, Speeches, Written

I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.

Feels, Like, Worry

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.

Blame Someone, Cause, Fault, Faults, Hey

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.

Chords, Ideas, Needed, Truth, Turned

I'd like to say that people. . . people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. Show me any country. . . and there'll be people in it just trying to take their humanity back into the center of the ring. . . . And follow that for a time. Y'know, think on that. Without people you're nothing.

Country, Follow, Humanity, Mean, Thinking

Don't write slogans, write truths.

Slogans, Truths, Write, Writing

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

Enough, Hands, People, Rich

A lot of people. . . use a calculator!

Calculator, Calculators, People, Use

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

Apathy, Complete, Hippie, Hippies, Represent

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.

Bad, Cities, Forgotten, Routine, Thinking, Waiting

The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

Being Honest, Honest, Tough, Tougher, Toughest

There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

Music, Run, Running, Town, World

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

Forward, Looks, People, Say, Want

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. . . . 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. . . . 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. . . . People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.

Fault, Growing Up, Rain, Remarkable, Simon, Song

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing

Billboard, Nothing, People, Should Have, Squares, Times

I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do. . . The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

Holiday, Rocks, Thinking, Truth, Uncertain

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

Age, Authority, Crushed, Grounded, Power

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