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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.

Billy Bragg

I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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Beer Celebrating Love Tattoo
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
I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.
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Aspiration Better Just Saying Need Party Politician
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
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
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Cares Country Patriot
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
A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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Dancing Politics Sleep
I think that ultimately Trump will lose the election and in the process destroy the Republican party – but then I’m an optimist, ha ha ha! So he might not lose. He might be in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world!
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Charge Election Nuclear Party Republican Ultimately
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
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Cutting Middleman Reality Somemroom Struggle
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
Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
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Achieve Bread Politics
Baptists burn more slowly.
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Baptists Burn More Slowly
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.
BILLY BRAGG

Bedroom Honesty Personality Traits Writing
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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Racism Racist Rocks
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
You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.
BILLY BRAGG

Downloads Experience Feelin

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