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The men at the factory are old and cunning

— Joe Strummer

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It's the best years of your life they want to steal. | “Clampdown” (1979)

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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.

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.

Interview with Judy McGuire for Punk Magazine (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.

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

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.

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

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