Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened. Melvyn Bragg More Quotes by Melvyn Bragg More Quotes From Melvyn Bragg History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. Melvyn Bragg neatpatternsdust There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. Melvyn Bragg blokesbritish To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music. Melvyn Bragg choirmalesjoy Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives. Melvyn Bragg alternativeswritinglove When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right Melvyn Bragg differentwriting More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined. Melvyn Bragg carpeopleart Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. Melvyn Bragg lakeplacesliteratureearth Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking. Melvyn Bragg good-lookingthinkknowpeople Class doesn't create culture anymore. Melvyn Bragg anymorecreateclassculture I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge. Melvyn Bragg thingsunderstandyoudoubt You ask 20 of your friends how English and American democracy came about. None of them would say that Anglicanism or Protestantism had anything to do with it. But it was crucial to it! Melvyn Bragg youryoufriendsdemocracy I don't feel like I'm slowing down. Melvyn Bragg downfeellikeslowing My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22. Melvyn Bragg my-lifecareerdifferentlife I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am. Melvyn Bragg i-amparentscommunitystrong I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable. Melvyn Bragg i-amjustyears-agoyears I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it. Melvyn Bragg famoussomebeingclass I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. Melvyn Bragg every-daydayluckbelieve Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you! Melvyn Bragg oldoutyoulaw I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly. Melvyn Bragg nevernever-forgettimeforget The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet. Melvyn Bragg betterbestsometimescountry
