Talk:Mick Jones (The Clash)

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  • There’s two different strains of punks, nice ones and horrible ones. We fall into the nice category
  • We’re not trying to be like young guys prancing around like idiots.
    • About carbon silicon
  • 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.
  • We were idiots then. We’re even bigger idiots now, just older.
    • About how he and Tony James have changed over the years
  • People say, what do you want to do? And I sort of think, well, watch the telly.
  • When you get to the museum level, you're usually dead, aren't you?
  • 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.
  • In a way, I killed off what I was good at, in order to do something different.
    • About Big Audio Dynamite
  • Q(A lot of blues-based rock, for better or worse, is about bragging.)

Yeah, and I didn't like that side of it at all. It's very similar to rap in that way. I like rap when it's about consciousness. I don't like it when it's down on women.

  • It took us a long time to get over the group, I must say… Even if we ever have.
    • About leaving the Clash
  • I didn't feel anything
    • When asked how he felt when leaving the Clash