Five Quotes from Joe Strummer
John Graham Mellor (Joe Strummer)
21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002
“And so now I'd like to say - people can change anything they want to.
And that means everything in the world. People are running about
following their little tracks - I am one of them. But we've all got to
stop just 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. That's because they've been
dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the center of the
ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They
should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without
people you're nothing. That's my spiel.”
“Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very
early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't
have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a
power or you were crushed”
“The future is unwritten.”
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not. There is nothing more common then unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will
not. The world if full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
Determination alone are Omnipotent.”
“Everybody has a story to tell.”
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