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That’s what I’m about — getting engaged. Too many people don’t wade in the mud with the politicians.

Billy Bragg

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
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Achieve Bread Politics
You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.
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Downloads Experience Feelin
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
Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.
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Accountability Freedom Paradox Seem
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
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
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
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
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
I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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Beer Celebrating Love Tattoo
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
If we accuse Trump of being a liar, he won’t just say ‘I never said that’ or just ignore it and go on to the next thing.
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Accuse Liars never Saidm Ignore
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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Racism Racist Rocks
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
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Cares Country Patriot
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Generations Jobs Worst
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

That’s what I’m about — getting engaged. Too many people don’t wade in the mud with the politicians.

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