Billy Bragg

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

— Billy Bragg

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

— Billy Bragg

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

— Billy Bragg

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

— Billy Bragg

Baptists burn more slowly.

— Billy Bragg

“Freedom is merely privilege extended Unless enjoyed by one and all. - The Internationale ”

— Billy Bragg

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

— 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

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

— Billy Bragg

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

— Billy Bragg

[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.

— Billy Bragg

“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all. - Must I Paint You a Picture ”

— Billy Bragg

“How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team? - Greetings to the…

— Billy Bragg

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet…

— 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

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

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and…

— Billy Bragg

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be…

— Billy Bragg

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a…

— Billy Bragg

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

— Billy Bragg

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once…

— 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

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why…

— Billy Bragg

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go…

— Billy Bragg

Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better…

— Billy Bragg

If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they're much more conducive to any ideas…

— 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

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there…

— 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

We have laws to deal with people who defame other people's religion. We have laws to deal with people who try to…

— Billy Bragg

Britain is a great country. We can more or less say what we like, and we can walk down the street without…

— Billy Bragg

What happened on September 11 wasn't the first act of war, it was the most unspeakable act of murder and terrorism. But…

— Billy Bragg

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

— Billy Bragg

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

— Billy Bragg

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

— Billy Bragg

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

— Billy Bragg

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

— Billy Bragg

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

— Billy Bragg

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

— Billy Bragg