Paul Simonon Quotes

#1. I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Emma Watson

#2. 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

#3. I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

Paul Simonon

#4. A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

Zephyr Teachout

#5. Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction.

Donald Barthelme

#6. 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

#7. I think my liver hurts.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Being outside on your own in all weathers is exciting; it clears you out.

Paul Simonon

#9. Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

Barack Obama

#10. 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

#11. I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

John Branch

#12. I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

Paul Simonon

#13. If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.

Hersch Lauterpacht

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

Brian Tracy

#18. 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

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

Paul Simonon

#20. More people are killed by errant cabdrivers in New York City every year than are killed by NYPD cops - and

Charles Campisi

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I rolled my eyes at his exuberance. "I have an older brother," I said. "He got all the sports knowledge. I learned how to bake cookies.

Monica Alexander

#25. 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

#26. I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#27. 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

#28. What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.

Alia Bhatt