#he

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. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#falklands #first #got #gulf #gulf war

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

— Billy Bragg

#i #political #songwriter #theory

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

#bit #go #into #like #love

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. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bands #believe #career #change #change the world

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. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bedroom #come #few #honest #honesty

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. ↗

— John Fahey

#i #never #teachers #technique #them

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#authors #been #clear #devised #exist

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#any #been #before #beginning #comet

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#belong #craved #i #never #somewhere

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#any #been #before #brilliancy #clear