Top 22 Quotes by Joe Strummer

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

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.

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 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.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

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

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!

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

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.