Billy Bragg Quotes

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

I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.

The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.

Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.

It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

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.

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.

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