# The Clash — Please Quote Me

## Quotes about The Clash (1)
> The Clash are authentic because their music carries such brutal conviction, not because they're Noble Savages.

— Lester Bangs, on The Clash (New Musical Express (NME), 1977)
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## From members of The Clash (2)
> I really learned it was over the day we sacked Topper, and not the day we sacked Mick.

— Joe Strummer, on Topper Headon, Mick Jones (Los Angeles Times (interview by Richard Cromelin), 1988)
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> I was trying to prove that I was the Clash and it wasn't [Mick (Jones)].

— Joe Strummer, on Mick Jones (Los Angeles Times (interview by Richard Cromelin), 1988)
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