#th

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#face #fans #hanging #ideals #integrity

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 Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#end #europe #far #first #first step

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. ↗

— Marc Faber

#crisis #current #government #haven #i

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#blessing #like #man #mandela #nelson

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

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. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#batting #because #further #i #labour

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