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 British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. Billy Bragg British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
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 British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
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 British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. Billy Bragg British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
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 British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. Billy Bragg British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. Billy Bragg British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. Billy Bragg British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
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 British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
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 British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0
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 British Musician More Billy Bragg Quotes 0