If you want to learn something, just steal it. — Woody Guthrie

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

We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations. — Joe Strummer

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I’m far more dangerous now, because I don’t care at all. — Joe Strummer

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. — Joe Strummer

There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to. — Joe Strummer

A lot of the time I’m semi–insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there. — Joe Strummer

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn’t looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left. — Joe Strummer

It is fun to be alive. It’s a hell of a lot better than being dead. — Joe Strummer

I’m proud of all our records. Even the crap ones. — Joe Strummer

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

The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything. — Joe Strummer

We didn’t have any solution to the world’s problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is. — Joe Strummer

My motto is, ‘What’s the hurry?’ I’m trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more. — Joe Strummer

There isn’t a town in the world I haven’t run amok in. — Joe Strummer

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie

People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. — Joe Strummer

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer

Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off. — Woody Guthrie

You’ve gotta be slightly stupid. — Joe Strummer

You ain’t alive and kicking unless you’re fighting. — Joe Strummer

You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat. — Joe Strummer

I’m far more dangerous now, because I don’t care at all. — Joe Strummer

Without people, you’re nothing. — Joe Strummer

You can only follow what’s on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can’t sleep unless you write it. — Joe Strummer