"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."

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"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."

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"All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans."

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"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."

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"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."

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"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."

"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."

"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."

"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."

"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."

"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."

"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."

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"All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans."

"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."

"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."

"An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone."

"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."

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"I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return."

"All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations."

"So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time."

"Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today."