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Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. ↗

— Bobby Bragan

#bucket #comfortable #foot #ice #oven

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#case #having #history #i #looking

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#by the time #completely #cultural #different #dynamic

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. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bob #contemporary #country #dylan #end

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

— Billy Bragg

#america #around #comes #even #guthrie

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. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#come #enjoyed #guys #having #i

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#because #coal #i #involved #knew

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. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#else #ford #go #i #labor

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

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