96 Quotes by Billy Bragg

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

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

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.

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.

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.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.