Quotes about Billy Bragg

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own...

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The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an...

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That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can...

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So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage,...

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My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

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My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

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Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary...

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It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist,...

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In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who...

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I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I...

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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of...

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