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If we accuse Trump of being a liar, he won't just say 'I never said that' or just ignore it and go on to the next thing.
Billy Bragg
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Billy Bragg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 20
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Stephen William Bragg
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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.
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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
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A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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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
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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.
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If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.
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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.
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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.
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Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
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I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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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.
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Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
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You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.
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Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away
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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.
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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
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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.
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What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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