Joe Strummer on Pop Music, 1987

"Well Im not very technical, Im not very "synthesizer-computer-graph-video screen, check the sound out and duplicate it". I want to say that I'm into performance, just four humans going 1-2-3-4, and playing the song together, which is how we made Clash records, and now day, you're technically perfect, you can stop the tape and everything is coming out of little boxes, you do it one by one; bass, drums, this and that. You know, I do want to embrace the new world, but I think there might just be a couple things we might be missing; performance, and content in the songwriting."