Billy Bragg Quotes

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel that we have all grown up too soon.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

And although the world was just the same as it had always been as I travelled home on the Tube that evening, my view of it had been changed forever.

[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.

That's what I'm about
getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

The revoloution is just a T-shirt away.

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.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

Baptists burn more slowly.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

- Must I Paint You a Picture

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.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

The revolution is just a T-shirt away.

- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again.

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

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

Because the space race is over
And I can't help but feel that we've all grown up too soon.

- The Space Race Is Over

If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman

How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?

He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in.

- King James Version

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.