Billy Bragg Quotes

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  • You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.

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    Source: thequietus.com
  • Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

    Billy Bragg (2015). “A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics”, p.81, Faber & Faber
  • I'm just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society's aspirations, politically. The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

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

  • Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

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

    Song: North Sea Bubble
  • 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 of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

  • Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • 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 up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.

  • 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 normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.

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

    Song: The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions
  • 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.

    Song: I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
  • Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like compassion and accountability.

    Source: music.avclub.com
  • At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.

  • 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 the year zero.

  • 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

    Song: I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
  • You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

    Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
  • Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

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

  • A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

    Song: Must I Paint You a Picture?
  • I don't mind being labeled as a political songwriter. I've chosen to do that. What really annoys me is being dismissed as a political songwriter. That really pains me, because life isn't all about love; it's not all about politics, either. It's a beautiful mixture of events that absolutely baffle you, and you think, "Why can't I do something about that?", whether those events are in your bedroom, or out there in the wide world. In our daily lives we engage with them at different times, and I'm trying to write about the whole human experience, or my perspective on it anyway.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

    Interview on CBC Radio One, November 17, 2006.
  • If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the goodness of the majority of people to be a socialist. You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don't believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you're never going to have that sensibility.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

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

    Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
  • Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

    Song: Days Like These
  • Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

  • I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

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

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    Billy Bragg

    • Born: December 20, 1957
    • Occupation: Singer-songwriter