Billy Bragg Quotes
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.
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I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
