Billy Bragg quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
Billy Bragg
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. View quote
Billy Bragg
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. View quote
Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg

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Photo: Flickr user Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: English Singer-songwriter
Born: December 20, 1957
Quotes count: 29
Wikipedia: Billy Bragg

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