Billy Bragg Political Quotations

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

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.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.