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John Graham Mellor , más conocido como Joe Strummer, fue un músico británico nacido en Turquía, conocido por haber sido miembro de la banda punk británica The Clash, y luego de The Mescaleros. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. agosto 1952 – 22. diciembre 2002
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Frases célebres de Joe Strummer

“Yo les enseñé todo lo que saben, pero no todo lo que sé”

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“Creo que lo que me vino es grande, pero mi hijo puede llevar esto a otro nivel, sin tener que luchar contra el racismo”

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“El futuro es incierto”

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“Sólo le agradezco a Dios por todas las bendiciones”

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“Los Clash lo hacemos todo de corazón”

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Joe Strummer: Frases en inglés

“Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.”

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Interview for Sounds Magazine on 17 July 1982. [Armed Combat, Sounds Magazine, 17 July 1982]

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

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The Clash, "Know Your Rights", Combat Rock (1982).
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“I'll tell you something. When you see you become part of the cycle of generations, you lose your ego in the process, because you ain't nothin' special. You're just another cipher in the generations. When you devote all your interest into another person, you lose your self-obsession, and that's when you understand what it is. You don't know (anything) without that moment. You don't want anything to harm this helpless being. That's a fantastic change. And that's when you understand what's happening. I never understood anything until my first baby looked at me. I didn't understand (anything). Now I understand.”

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Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

“We got all the influences for it [Global a Go-Go] from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.”

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About Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros' album Global a Go-Go (2001) and about the song writing process.
Strummer talks war and music (13 November 2001)

“In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being. Fuck being an asshole, what you pussies thought it was twenty years ago.”

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from CD Now (September 1999) with Jason Gross

“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.”

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Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

“What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers… synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records…. The roots of rock 'n' roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.”

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Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

“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. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world. People are running about following their little tracks. I am one of them. But we've all gotta stop just stop following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything; this is something that I'm beginning to learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other; it's because they've been dehumanized. It's time to take that humanity back into the centre of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed… it ain't going anywhere! They should have that on a big billboard across Times Square. Think on that. Without people you're nothing.”

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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007).

“If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that…. Because it was not their fault.”

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Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.”

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My Dinner with Strummer (March 1999)
Variante: The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.

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

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Joe Strummer / Mick Jones, "White Riot", The Clash (1977).
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“I'd just like to say to everybody that it's best to check out the independent life: the independent stores and the independent everybodies. We should try not to give our money to any corporations, if we can help it.”

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Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare into he Hearts of All Things Corporate (2002)

“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.”

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Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare into he Hearts of All Things Corporate (2002)

“I think that the corporation is running it and will always make it appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.”

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About mainstream radio.
Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare into he Hearts of All Things Corporate (2002)

“I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.”

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About punk.
Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare into he Hearts of All Things Corporate (2002)

“I kept trying to stress that — "Hang on, we're be-bop guys, we're down in the alley on 57th Street. We're not in there with John Reed and "Ten Days That Shook the World." We'd be in the alley with (Charlie) Parker shooting up junk. That's where we were at really.”

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Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

“[T]he toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.”

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As quoted in [Coon, Caroline, w:en:Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html, 2011-09-21, 1977, Hawthorn, London, 0801561299., 79262599, http://web.archive.org/20071026052834/homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html, 2007-10-26]

“Singing into a cold wind is the worst nightmare for any singer. You could hear it in the voice.”

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Strummer talks war and music (13 November 2001)

“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!”

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Interview with Howard Petruziello for the New York Hangover on March 2000 Petruziello, Howard, Drinking with Joe Strummer, New York Hangover, 2000, March http://www.nyhangover.com/issues/0300/text/Strummer300.htm,

“I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.”

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7 Questions with Joe Strummer (15 August 2001)

“The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get running
It's the best years of your life they want to steal.”

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“Clampdown” (1979)

“I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social (stuff), all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin'. I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?”

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Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

“I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that.”

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The whole thing baffles me.
My Dinner with Strummer (March 1999)

“London Calling - Yes, I was there, too,
And you know what they said? Well some of it was true.
London Calling at the top of the dial…
And after all this, won't you give me a smile?”

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Joe Strummer / Mick Jones, "London Calling", London Calling (1979).
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“I think you have to grow up and realise that we're facing religious fanatics who would kill everyone in the world who doesn't do what they say. The more time you give them the more bombs they'll get. Bin Laden is going to try and kill more people. It helps the fanatics.”

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Strummer talks war and music (13 November 2001)

“Too many songs have been written about love already, you know? Subject's covered.”

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About why The Clash focuses on political songs.
Interview on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder on 5 June 1981.

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

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As quoted in [Coon, Caroline, w:en:Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html, 2011-09-21, 1977, Hawthorn, London, 0801561299., 79262599, http://web.archive.org/20071026052834/homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html, 2007-10-26]

“I have a big legacy of The Clash to live up to and I don't intend to uriny on a legend. I intend to build forward into the next century. The music has to be by the musicians, and there's too much changing things by the record company. I got a message for everyone in a record company: We don't care if you lose your job! You ruin music and I'll get all the smoothers out off the way, the people who smooth the sound off. Let the musicians have the music the way they want it, and not the way you think the grandmothers and 3-year olds will gonna buy it. Cause this is not about 3-year olds or grandmothers… This is Rock and Roll!”

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Bizarre Festival (21 August 1999)

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

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7 Questions with Joe Strummer (15 August 2001)

“No man's land. There ain't no asylum here.
King Solomon he never lived 'round here.”

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The Clash, "Straight to Hell", Combat Rock (1982).
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