Billy Bragg
Related VIKRAM SETH LIAM GALLAGHER JOHN IRVING ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the book... J. R. MOEHRINGER Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this. MERCEDES RUEHL PAWAN KALYAN 'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam c... ZACHARY KNIGHTON AMY BLOOM ASHTON KUTCHER PHIL MCGRAW I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. GARRY WILLS TOM COLICCHIO It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. D. B. SWEENEY DESMOND TUTU STEVE BUSCEMI AISHA TYLER MARY J. BLIGE You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to wor... NANDAN NILEKANI CANELO ALVAREZ LATOYA JACKSON TORI AMOS KARAN JOHAR ASHTON KUTCHER I had the freedom to choose my career. I had the opportunity to choose a career in sports. It's ... CASEY WASSERMAN I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu... LAINIE KAZAN AUGUSTE RODIN DITA VON TEESE I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it&#... CARLENE CARTER I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no... CHRIS STAPLETON There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that arch... CHARLIE COX It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently... VIVIENNE MING First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i... STANISLAW JERZY LEC It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't kn... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my tw... BARRY JENKINS Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just com... PAULA RADCLIFFE DANIEL CRAIG CASS MCCOMBS DAN AYKROYD GASPARD ULLIEL GERRY COONEY ALEXA CHUNG DANIEL CRAIG JACKIE EVANCHO CHESTER BENNINGTON Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose... MICHAEL CIMINO I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It... ADAM FERRARA HUNTER S. THOMPSON I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very ... ANDREW LINCOLN MIKE YACONELLI I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien... WALLACE SHAWN I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I c... BOB SAGET I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not t... TAYLOR MOMSEN ERYKAH BADU LOIS LOWRY Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm ... CAROLINE WOZNIACKI JOYCE CAROL OATES VERONICA ROTH I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of bein... MADELINE ZIMA I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don&... LILLY PULITZER SHARON STONE PATRICK ROTHFUSS RACHEL BROSNAHAN KANGANA RANAUT One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior th... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS BRIE LARSON I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air i... CRISS ANGEL What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most importa... BRADY ANDERSON I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me. RACHEL GIBSON I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who wr... PAULA FOX CARRIE-ANNE MOSS JOYCE MEYER A. S. BYATT The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're b... JAVIER BARDEM JOHN TRAVOLTA W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM AYELET ZURER JOHNNY WEIR I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother... URSULA BURNS I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s... N. K. JEMISIN I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it'... EMILY WATSON I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a differe... BILL RICHARDSON OPRAH WINFREY CHRIS CRUTCHER I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or st... TOM PERROTTA AMY SEDARIS ALIA BHATT I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some... CAM TIA MOWRY I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn&#... JOSHUA LEDERBERG DAN SAVAGE JACOB DEGROM I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel... BERENICE BEJO JACKIE CHAN When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. OWEN WISTER J. D. SOUTHER Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music... ELLIOTT CARTER I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choo... KATHRYN LASKY ADRIANA TRIGIANI
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To have accountability you must get out and vote! BILLY BRAGG A song is like a newspaper. It's capable of carrying a number of different messages. Some of them ar... BILLY BRAGG A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. .... BILLY BRAGG All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. BILLY BRAGG Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable, BILLY BRAGG Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, BILLY BRAGG The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o... BILLY BRAGG And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got so... BILLY BRAGG They were the true inheritors of the mantle of The Clash. 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 I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they sho... BILLY BRAGG Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. BILLY BRAGG You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a ... BILLY BRAGG And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.BILLY BRAGG I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportun... BILLY BRAGG The revolution is just a T-shirt away.Waiting for the Great Leap Forward BILLY BRAGG Welcome to what we're calling 'I'll Be Your Bobby Tonight'. BILLY BRAGG Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage tro... BILLY BRAGG We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. BILLY BRAGG That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world.... BILLY BRAGG My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. BILLY BRAGG My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. BILLY BRAGG Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go ... BILLY BRAGG In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved... BILLY BRAGG I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro... BILLY BRAGG I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al... BILLY BRAGG I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. BILLY BRAGG I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come... BILLY BRAGG There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own persona... BILLY BRAGG I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of ... BILLY BRAGG By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which ... BILLY BRAGG But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou... BILLY BRAGG So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t... BILLY BRAGG I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. BILLY BRAGG All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real ... BILLY BRAGG An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone. BILLY BRAGG The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a jo... BILLY BRAGG If no one seems to understandBILLY BRAGG The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g... MELVYN BRAGG In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,... MELVYN BRAGG I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe... MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we... MELVYN BRAGG Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you! MELVYN BRAGG We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse... MELVYN BRAGG I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it. MELVYN BRAGG The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of cluster... MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i... MELVYN BRAGG I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega... MELVYN BRAGG Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. MELVYN BRAGG It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -... MELVYN BRAGG I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh... MELVYN BRAGG We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ... MELVYN BRAGG Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste... MELVYN BRAGG Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser... MELVYN BRAGG In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. MELVYN BRAGG It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t... MELVYN BRAGG Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th... MELVYNN BRAGG As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. MELVYN BRAGG Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,... MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num... MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never... MELVYN BRAGG I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ... MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. MELVYN BRAGG I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ... MELVYN BRAGG This is our showpiece this season, we're tickled. GARY BRAGG Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an... MELVYN BRAGG I'm a class mongrel. MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other... MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal. MELVYN BRAGG I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli... MELVYN BRAGG The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea... MELVYN BRAGG A lot of people broke their arms on these cranks; it's similar to what was used on early cars. GARY BRAGG Maybe a few dozen are left. GARY BRAGG This is Cat history. Compared to the feeding and caring of horses, this was wonderful. GARY BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... WILLIAM BRAGG, SR. SIR WILLIAM BRAGG SIR WILLIAM BRAGG The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG SIR WILLIAM BRAGG SIR WILLIAM BRAGG God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules ... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time... 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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me. 
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... 
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don&... 
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want ... 
I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. ... 
I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes... 
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can&#... 
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they c... 
Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I kn... 
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. 
I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously. 
I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or th... 
I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It&... 
I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for ... 
When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live... 
I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I ... 
I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don... 
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'... 
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. 
I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red c... 
I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very... 
I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really ... 
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don... 
I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious ... 
I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... 
When I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to loo... 
I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think muc... 
I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don... 
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out ... 
Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't. 
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to d... 
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a... 
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjec... 
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think ... 
I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose t... 
I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. 
No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they... 
I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow th... 
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love... 
Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose th... 
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we ch... 
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. P... 
I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. 
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. 
If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I... 
I don't take on a project unless I know the end result is going to make me happy. If I can't... 
I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility.... 
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know any... 
I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But... 
There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they d... 
The meat that I choose to feed my family, it's healthy meats such as lamb, which is very low in ... 
I don't write about my life in my column. 
I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. I... 
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie... 
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... 
I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to ... 
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carrie... 
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ... 
But I hope that I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books,
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki... 
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of th... 
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... 
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. 
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ... 
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor... 
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i... 
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you... 
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. 
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you. 
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying. 
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. 
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. 
The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa... 
Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi... 
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro... 
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ... 
The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period. 
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. 
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. 
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B... 
Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy... 
Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo... 
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. 
Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going... 
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ... 
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and... 
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ... 
You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp... 