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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.

Billy Bragg

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
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Integrity Media Real
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
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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Confrontation Height Made Political
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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Ago Dismissed Long Part Political Problem Songwriter
Money maketh man a tory, don’t fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
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Assumption Fire Men Money Tea Toast
All the things about ‘the ugly American’ that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it’s all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.
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About Country Display Egotistical Themselves
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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Caring Country Long
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
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
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
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
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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Pairs Pins Punk Safety
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
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Cares Country Patriot
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
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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Country Islands Soldier Song War
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Generations Jobs Worst

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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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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