You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards. Billy Bragg More Quotes by Billy Bragg More Quotes From Billy Bragg My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. Billy Bragg honest political theory I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all. Billy Bragg records band political Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride. Billy Bragg fountain neighbor pride Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. Billy Bragg stuff today america I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. Billy Bragg racist rocks racism [A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom. Billy Bragg comfortable feels long The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level. Billy Bragg important artist thinking If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth. Billy Bragg news army people An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone. Billy Bragg bloody use america A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country. Billy Bragg who-cares patriot country 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. Billy Bragg political song way Baptists burn more slowly. Billy Bragg baptists That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians. Billy Bragg mud wade people We have laws to deal with people who defame other people's religion. We have laws to deal with people who try to blow up our citizens. We have due process. We have laws to deal with people who we capture during combat and war, but somehow Guantanamo Bay seems to be outside all that. And perhaps it's being maintained with the view to what people are talking about now, this idea of the "long war," that this is going to go on and on, and perhaps Iran is going to be next. Billy Bragg blow war long Whether we like it or not, we live in a post-ideological world. That's how a Donald Trump can get through. He has no ideology at all: in that sense, he's a bit like Mussolini. I think that ultimately Trump will lose the election and in the process destroy the Republican party - but then I'm an optimist, ha ha ha! So he might not lose. He might be in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world! Billy Bragg party world thinking The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture. Billy Bragg youth musician culture Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel. Billy Bragg growth children people If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the goodness of the majority of people to be a socialist. You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don't believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you're never going to have that sensibility. Billy Bragg believe people thinking We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display. Billy Bragg ugly dream worry 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. Billy Bragg today world thinking
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