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Billy Bragg

"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."

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Donna Grant

"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."

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Donna Grant

"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."

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Donna Grant

"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."

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Donna Grant

"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."

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Donna Grant

"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."

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Billy Bragg
"There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them."

Honesty

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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."

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Billy Bragg
"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."

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Billy Bragg
"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."

War

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Billy Bragg
"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."

Class

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Billy Bragg
"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."

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Billy Bragg
"The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level."

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Billy Bragg
"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."

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Billy Bragg
"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."

Punk

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Billy Bragg
"In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there."

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