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“I got my self-respect in this group. I don’t believe in guitar heroes. If I walk out on stage it’s because I wanna reach the audience. I want to communicate with them…I don’t want them to suck my guitar off.”
– Mick Jones, The Clash
“I remember at the ICA, me and Joe were trying to work out how everyone spoke to Mick and not to us, and we thought there must be something wrong with us. So one day we went over to Mick and he said, ‘Oh, it’s because they’re scared of you.’ In some ways I then took that on board and I just used to generally scowl a lot. ‘Cos I remember Joe being surrounded by people who wanted to talk politics, and Joe had just come offstage. And I looked around at Joe and saw him drowning in political rhetoric. And I was quite pleased I got out of that.”
– Paul Simonon
