Billy Bragg Quotes

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.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.

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.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

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.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

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.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

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.