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I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

Billy Bragg

War what is it good for? It’s good for business.
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Business Inspirational War
If we think we’re a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let’s commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.
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Grea Idea Ourselves Thinking World
I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.
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Art Politics Thinking Try Writing
Whether we like it or not, we live in a post-ideological world. That’s how a Donald Trump can get through. He has no ideology at all: in that sense, he’s a bit like Mussolini.
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Ideology Party Post Sense Thinking Whether World
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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Cutting Middleman Reality Somemroom Struggle
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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Confrontation Height Made Political
The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.
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Country Disaster Month September War
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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Band Political Records
At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society.
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Education Free Important Powerful
I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it’s me who has to come up with all the ideas.
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Come Guy Idea Ideas Riffing Studio
You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don’t believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you’re never going to have that sensibility.
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Believe Empty Everyone Glass Sensibility Standard
You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.
BILLY BRAGG

Downloads Experience Feelin
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Generations Jobs Worst
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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Answers Guilt Poetry Saddle
The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.
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Aspiration Key Proportional Representation Society Sort
That’s what I’m about — getting engaged. Too many people don’t wade in the mud with the politicians.
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Mud People Politician Wade

I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

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I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

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