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

Billy Bragg

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
War what is it good for? It’s good for business.
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Business Inspirational War
It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street – which Im also in favour of.
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Dirty Favour More Powerful Shining
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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Believe Opportunity Player Politician
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 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
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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Feel Makem Sceptic Someone Themselves
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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Love Political Reportage Song Way
Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn’t be, because you have been the victims of this awful terrorist attack, and I think America deserves the sympathy of the world.
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Images International States Thinking Today World
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
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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Argument Consumers Corporations
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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Bedroom Honesty Personality Traits Writing
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you’re an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
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Artist Important Journalist Thinking
Baptists burn more slowly.
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Baptists Burn More Slowly
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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Army Dark Unspeakable War
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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Bee Problem Smashing Solved Think Unspeakables
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
Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
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Achieve Bread Politics
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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Interesting Song Thinking
You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn’t mean that you are not held accountable.
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Community Mean Responsibility
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
We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
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Country Dream Nightmare Ugly Worry
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 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
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
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Mixing Use Usual
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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Charge Election Nuclear Party Republican Ultimately
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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Better Feel Giving Mean Scepticism Up

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

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