Joe Strummer Quotes


"What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!"
- Joe Strummer
(Related: America, Beer, Pretty, Singing)

"Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it."
- Joe Strummer
(Related: Pressure, Responsibility, Thinking)

"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."
- Joe Strummer
(Related: Blame, Cause, Fault, Nothing)

"With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart."
- Joe Strummer
(Related: Work, Heart)

"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."
- Joe Strummer
(Related: American, Now, Pretty, Thinking)

"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
(Related: Life, Income)

"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."
- Joe Strummer