# Joe Strummer on Mick Jones — Please Quote Me

> I was trying to prove that I was the Clash and it wasn't [Mick (Jones)].

— Joe Strummer, on Mick Jones

Source: Los Angeles Times (interview by Richard Cromelin), 1988 (print)
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