Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
Billy Bragg
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Billy Bragg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Stephen William Bragg
Bard of Barking
Conrad
William Bragg
Pops
Offer
Excuse
Offers
Asks
Mixing
Politics
Embarrassment
Use
Excuses
Usual
More quotes by Billy Bragg
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
Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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
I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
Billy Bragg
We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.
Billy Bragg
War what is it good for? It's good for business.
Billy Bragg
If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.
Billy Bragg
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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
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
I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
Billy Bragg
An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
Billy Bragg
It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.
Billy Bragg
I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.
Billy Bragg
What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
Billy Bragg
A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
Billy Bragg
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
Billy Bragg
Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
Billy Bragg
The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.
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
