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 BRAGGPart of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
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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.
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Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I’m not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing.
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I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.
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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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Just because you’re gay, I won’t turn you away. If you stick around, I’m sure we can find some common ground.
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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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I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren’t very political, at all.
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I think that ultimately Trump will lose the election and in the process destroy the Republican party – but then I’m an optimist, ha ha ha! So he might not lose. He might be in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world!
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War what is it good for? It’s good for business.
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If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they’re much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they’re about relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.
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We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
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You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.
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What happened on September 11 wasn’t the first act of war, it was the most unspeakable act of murder and terrorism. But it was construed by a very small group of people – there is no army out there in the dark waiting to take over America.
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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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