Billy Bragg

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so…

— Billy Bragg

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

— Billy Bragg

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.

— Billy Bragg

I don't mind being labeled as a political songwriter. I've chosen to do that. What really annoys me is being dismissed as…

— Billy Bragg

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much…

— Billy Bragg

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were…

— Billy Bragg

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive…

— Billy Bragg

You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without…

— Billy Bragg

“Seems like nothing goes right For the world oh that we were born in But the horizon is bright Because yonder comes…

— Billy Bragg

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still…

— Billy Bragg

“The revolution is just a T-shirt away. - Waiting for the Great Leap Forward ”

— Billy Bragg

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me…

— Billy Bragg

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write…

— Billy Bragg

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and…

— Billy Bragg

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

— Billy Bragg

If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the…

— Billy Bragg

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

— Billy Bragg

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

— Billy Bragg

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

— Billy Bragg

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

— Billy Bragg

Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like…

— Billy Bragg

If we accuse Trump of being a liar, he won't just say 'I never said that' or just ignore it and go…

— Billy Bragg

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

— Billy Bragg

Baptists burn more slowly.

— Billy Bragg

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

— Billy Bragg