96 Quotes by Billy Bragg

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

But, in the end, even a song that’s as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn’t get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan’s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

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.

I never met a politician who didn’t want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I’ve got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

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

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.

Those of us who’d been through the cleansing fire of punk rock expected a little bit more, I think...

I’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me.

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street – which Im also in favour of.