Quotes by Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg

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.

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Real

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

Height

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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.

Free Education

Important

Powerful

Britain is a great country. We can more or less say what we like, and we can walk down the street without anyone trying to kill us. I know it’s tough for some people, but generally we live in a caring society. We live in a great country, but we’re no longer a great power. Part of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago.

Caring

Country

Long

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, whereas some of Bob Dylan’s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

Country

Girl

Song

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.

Answers

Guilt

Poetry

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

America

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Today

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

Enjoyed

Privilege

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.

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People

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

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Quotes by Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg

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.

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

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, whereas some of Bob Dylan’s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

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.

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

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

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

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