Top 125 Clash Quotes

Four personalities are bound to clash.
John Deacon
I don’t think there’s anything in the compromise that means that there’s a clash of ethics.
Peter Singer
The bands that were big in ’77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early ’80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.
Fred Armisen
In terms of pressure, El Clasico is unique, but also a match against PSG is a stimulating and exciting clash.
Raphael Varane
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand ‘clash of civilisations’ theory or ‘the West versus the rest’ binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Pankaj Mishra
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
David Brooks
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
Imelda May
Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai Stevenson I
I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.
Nick Hornby
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
Billy Bragg
I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands, like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat – all those bands that you get into when you’re first getting into punk.
Laura Jane Grace
Well, when you’re recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they’re trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that’s a good thing.
Kris Allen
If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and ‘Combat Rock,’ what an evolution.
Laura Jane Grace
‘Clash Of The Titans’ is one of the biggest movies I’ve done; it was certainly the most effects I’ve worked with.
Mads Mikkelsen
For years, my dad’s friend Joe was just my dad’s friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.
Alfie Allen
Okay, I like the Clash. I like Tears for Fears. I like A-ha.
Finn Wolfhard
The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like ‘Rock the Casbah’ are political dance tracks.
Vic Mensa
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
Ken Livingstone
A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who clash constantly, whose clashes make the publication better. It is exhausting and draining, and honestly, the only thing that’s harder is probably running a university.
Ben Domenech
If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I’d be able to tell you every member. But I couldn’t name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.
Dave Gahan
There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between ‘the West’ and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
Federica Mogherini
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings – homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.
Evan Davis
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
Billy Bragg
The first Nintendo game I ever got was ‘Clash at Demonhead.’ I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, ‘Sailor Moon.’
Bryan Lee O’Malley
I saw the Clash in ’79 at the Paramount in Seattle, and it changed my whole life.
Duff McKagan
There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between ‘the West’ and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
Federica Mogherini
My mom liked to have us travel in first class with her. She’s like, ‘I work for my money, and I want my kids to live a certain kind of way.’ My dad used to get so mad at my mom for flying us first class. So it was a clash on that.
Evan Ross
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
You have to understand how lucky I feel. I was on ‘Saturday. Night. Live.’ I played with the Clash! On what planet would I look at anything in my life in any less-than-stellar way?
Fred Armisen
When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can’t. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don’t understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
Daniel Alarcon
Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it’s where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home – I love the culture clash of the city.
Dree Hemingway
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.
Justin Sane
I’m definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
John Cusack
I’m open to anything interesting as long as it doesn’t clash with my schedule as a mom and wife.
Rhea Pillai
When you scan the globe’s hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.
Atifete Jahjaga
That’s management. It’s a social job as much as anything else, finding out what people are like, seeing through them. There have been good players and not-so-good players who I have moved along because I thought there would be a clash of character.
Tony Pulis
I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West – just a lot of different artists.
Brie Larson
I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.
Boots Riley
I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so m

I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can start a conversation with almost literally any dude about the Clash.
Rob Sheffield
I started writing lyrics to clash with other people in the playground. Now I’ve developed my own voice and my own style. There’s no one out there that does the same thing as me.
Kano
One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.
Krista Tippett
Every time that zealots clash with the zany and Religion and Freedom take opposite positions across the trenches, the issue becomes larger than the individual.
Barkha Dutt
Culture clash is terrific drama.
Ken Follett
At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don’t know how my parents let me do that.
Laura Dern
‘Clash Of The Titans’ is one of the biggest movies I’ve done; it was certainly the most effects I’ve worked with.
Mads Mikkelsen
I saw the Clash in ’79 at the Paramount in Seattle, and it changed my whole life.
Duff McKagan
Me and my brothers all have different personalities and we definitely clash over living together in a small space.
Mikey Madison
When it’s a clash between two big teams, you know your players will concentrate.
Frank Rijkaard
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven’t given much thought to the connections.
Steven Pinker
‘Notting Hill?’ Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In ‘Mickey Blue Eyes,’ that’s kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don’t really have much.
Hugh Grant
My mom’s Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she’s from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There’s a bit of culture clash there.
Maiara Walsh
Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
Kendrick Lamar
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will.
Paul Bloom
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Neil Jackson
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
Christopher Eccleston
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the ’60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state – so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
Nancy Gibbs
I hope to have more than one main weapon. I have the Phenomenal Forearm as we’re calling it now, the Calf Crusher – the Styles Clash is still available. I like to have a lot of alternative moves to hit people with, and whatever seems to work is what I’ll go with.
A.J. Styles