Billy Bragg Quotes
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out…
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Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
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A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
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War what is it good for? It's good for business.
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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
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Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some…
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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
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So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you…
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We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
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It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't…
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Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in…
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My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
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That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that…
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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really…
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In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there.…
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