Simonon Paul Quotes & Sayings

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. — Marc Andreessen

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't. — Paul Simonon

When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in — Paul Simonon

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it. — Paul Simonon

The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties. — James T. Walsh

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't. — Paul Simonon

I didn't notice I was crying until a stewardess came by and gave me a tissue to blow my nose in. Her arm and wrist were slender and they formed a pretty arch, like the limb of a fruit tree, as she poked the tissue into my clenched fist. She didn't look at my eyes. It was a perfect gesture, an expression of indifference and concern, which is the most a drunk can ask for. — John Straley

Being outside on your own in all weathers is exciting; it clears you out. — Paul Simonon

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures. — Paul Simonon

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual. — Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person. — Paul Simonon

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels. — Robert Ardrey

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting. — Paul Simonon

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. — Paul Simonon

I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools. — Paul Simonon

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back. — Paul Simonon

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job. — Paul Simonon

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything. — Lucinda Williams

We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being. — Paul Simonon

Even funnier, the guy at the front desk thinks I am either a hooker or having an affair with a married man. He was more than discrete."
"I would have guessed affair," I joked. — Andrea Heltsley

A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry. — Paul Simonon

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters. — Frederic Raphael

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality. — Paul Simonon