Mick Jones
Lead guitarist and a vocalist of the British punk rock band The Clash until his dismissal in 1983.
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We’re not trying to be like young guys prancing around like idiots.
We were idiots then. We’re even bigger idiots now, just older.
People say, what do you want to do? And I sort of think, well, watch the telly.
It took us a long time to get over the group, I must say… Even if we ever have.
He was just there, looking fantastic... the bastard.
There’s two different strains of punks, nice ones and horrible ones. We fall into the nice category
When you get to the museum level, you're usually dead, aren't you?
With my own legendry, I try to ignore it entirely. Basically, if I took any notice, my head would explode. I wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Q(A lot of blues-based rock, for better or worse, is about bragging.)
In a way, I killed off what I was good at, in order to do something different.
I used to go to school with my hair looking like Johnny Thunders', totally sewn into my jeans and wearing women's shoes and a Sex T-shirt from Malcolm McLaren's shop. I'd turn up every day looking like this Martian. I used to get abused all the time, but I didn't give a shit in those days. I knew I was onto something.
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