Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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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
Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable,
Billy Bragg
A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. . . . You can't change the world singing songs, believe me, but you can offer people an alternative perspective, even on their own situations. So that's what I'm trying to do.
Billy Bragg
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.
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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
Billy Bragg
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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