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.
BILLY BRAGGIt’s like being stung by a bee and going out and smashing up a beehive, and thinking you’ve solved the problem. There are more beehives out there; more bees will come. But they’re bees. They’re not grizzly bears.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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It’s like being stung by a bee and going out and smashing up a beehive, and thinking you’ve solved the problem. There are more beehives out there; more bees will come. But they’re bees. They’re not grizzly bears.
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A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
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You can have an argument with someone who’s a sceptic. When I say ‘cynic’, I mean someone who has given up, and they want you to give up too, so it makes them feel better about themselves.
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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.
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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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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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Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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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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