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For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

— Joe Strummer

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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)

The men at the factory are old and cunning

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.

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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