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Billy Bragg

"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."

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"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."

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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."

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"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"

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"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."

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"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right."

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

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"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."

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"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

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"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."

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"For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas."

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