I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
BILLY BRAGGWithout accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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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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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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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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A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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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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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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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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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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If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.
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A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
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War what is it good for? It’s good for business.
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Just because you’re gay, I won’t turn you away. If you stick around, I’m sure we can find some common ground.
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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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