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Billy Bragg Quotes

Billy Bragg quotes

British Musician December 20, 1957

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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. Billy Bragg
So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time. Billy Bragg
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. Billy Bragg
It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. Billy Bragg
Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else. Billy Bragg
That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really. Billy Bragg
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me. Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg quote: "All the great political music was made at the height of..."
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. Billy Bragg
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. Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg quote: "How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even..."
How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team? Billy Bragg
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg quote: "We read our own political content into The Clash, and they..."
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. 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. Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg quote: "Now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel that..."
Now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel that we have all grown up too soon. Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg quote: "I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against..."
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. Billy Bragg

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