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Joe Strummer war ein britischer Punkrockmusiker. Bekannt wurde er als Mitbegründer, Sänger und Gitarrist der britischen Punk-Band The Clash. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. August 1952 – 22. Dezember 2002
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“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.”

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.”

The Clash, "Know Your Rights", Combat Rock (1982).
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“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.”

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)

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

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.”

Joe Strummer / Mick Jones, "White Riot", The Clash (1977).
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“[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.”

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]

“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!”

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,

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

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.”

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

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.”

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