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Billy Bragg Quotes

British - Musician | December 20, 1957 -

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.

War Listening Saying Letters Island

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

Struggle People Want Why Understand

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

Nature Me Choose Kind More Write

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

Work School People Thought Go Labor

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

Political Theory Honest Songwriter

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

Class Straightforward Working Very

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

Love Time Political You Go More

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.

Change Change The World Me World You

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.

Honesty Personality Step Writing Out

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

Political Content Own Read Accepted

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.

Me Ideas Someone Up Working Off

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

Safety Punk Been Just Would Pin

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