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
BILLY BRAGGAt some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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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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I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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Britain is a great country. We can more or less say what we like, and we can walk down the street without anyone trying to kill us. I know it’s tough for some people, but generally we live in a caring society. We live in a great country, but we’re no longer a great power.
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That’s what I’m about — getting engaged. Too many people don’t wade in the mud with the politicians.
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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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Part 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.
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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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I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
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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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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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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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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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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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