Billy Bragg Quotes

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• I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
• I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I…
• A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
• Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
• All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live…
• By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from…
• But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now,…
• Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
• I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because…
• I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
• I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
• I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but…
• Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
• Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
• It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than…
• I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these…
• If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.
• If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the…
• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
• The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the…

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