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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 It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu...
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.
If you stick around, I'm sure we can find so...
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 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 understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman

- ...
BILLY 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

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carrie...
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

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ...
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

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ea...
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

But I hope that I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books,
by books that are bo...
RICK BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other...
MELVYN BRAGG

In the Mountains, they cooked, too.
Joe Godwin made liquor in Muscadine. Moe Shealey made it in...
RICK BRAGG

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
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

Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bott...
RICK BRAGG

The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and...
RICK BRAGG

One: Don't kill yourself.
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody e...
RICK BRAGG

These were people who remembered the weight of the cotton sack, people with grease under their finge...
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.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of th...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b...
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...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG I've often been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper - and breakfast as well
WILLIAM BRAGG SR. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
WILLIAM BRAGG SR. [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their poi...
WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contac...
WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for hi...
GENERAL EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ...
BILLY GRAHAM

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i...
BILLY SUNDAY

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you...
BILLY WILDER

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
BILLY CORGAN

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLY

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
BILLY GRAHAM

The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi...
BILLY CRYSTAL When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand...
BILLY PORTER

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro...
BILLY GIBBONS

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
BILLY BEANE I'm not a bro.
BILLY EICHNER

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

The best director is the one you don't see.
BILLY WILDER

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
BILLY WILDER

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...
BILLY WILDER

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too serious...
BILLY WILDER

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
BILLY GRAHAM

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
BILLY GRAHAM

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
BILLY GRAHAM

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about th...
BILLY GRAHAM

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B...
BILLY JOEL I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.
BILLY EICHNER

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ...
BILLY PORTER

Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy...
BILLY GARDELL

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo...
BILLY MAYS Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
BILLY BUSH It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instru...
BILLY SHEEHAN

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
BILLY WILDER

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Au...
BILLY WILDER

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means...
BILLY WILDER

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
BILLY WILDER

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids sho...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
BILLY SUNDAY

The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Gentlemen, start your egos.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the...
BILLY CRYSTAL

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Change is such hard work
BILLY CRYSTAL

The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ...
BILLY GIBBONS

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I...
BILLY JOEL

[Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL

Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL

I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun
BILLY JOEL

Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN

I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST

The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE

You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN

A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN

The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN

For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN

Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN

By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

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