Baptists burn more slowly.
BILLY BRAGGYou can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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I’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me.
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I’d like to think that in a generation or two we’ll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
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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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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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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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War what is it good for? It’s good for business.
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Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
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I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.
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We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
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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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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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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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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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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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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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