Billy Bragg
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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 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.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 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. 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All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... 
Everyday somebody dies... in combat, in war in battle... in game everwhere... so far nowhere is safe... 
Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... 
That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty.... 
This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... 
Aerodynamically there isn’t much you can do to enhance your Beetle’s handling. The Porsche style... 
Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... 
It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library. 
I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible. 
To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet. 
I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God. 
I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's think... 
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we... 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
I believe that I have such a vanilla life. 
The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going... 
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things t... 
I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... 
I believe that dogma is often evil. 
I believe that sex is good and so is the body. 
As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates. 
I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They... 
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The ... 
Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad... 
I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best y... 
Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in ... 
I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people... 
One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything. 
What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life... 
I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it. 
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p... 
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who e... 
It's only awkward if it matters. 
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory. 
Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from. 
Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or what... 
Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It... 
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can ge... 
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the... 
For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged... 
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. 
I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. 
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carrie... 
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ea... 
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... 
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... 
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. 
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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor... 
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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. 
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... 
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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. 
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ... 
Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy... 
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. 
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I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. 
The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth... 
The blues is life itself. 
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I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues. 
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. 
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For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b... 