Billy Bragg

'Billy Bragg' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Bragg, Billy Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Let Fury Have the Hour

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Evidently... John Cooper Clarke

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Singer
• Play in Full Screen Evidently... John Cooper Clarke

  2012, role: actor , character name: Songwriter
• Play in Full Screen Way of the Morris

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Strummerville

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Breaking Rocks

  2009, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Glastonbury

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Folk Britannia

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen If I Were Prime Minister

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen This Machine Kills Fascists

  2005, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Punk Years

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Vote 2001

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Life and Lyrics of Kirsty MacColl

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Internationale

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Man in the Sand

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Radio One Story

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Garbage

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Walking and Talking

  1996, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Time Capsule

  1990, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Great Journeys: Silver Tracks

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Mr. Bragg Goes to Moscow

  1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Turn It Up: Days Like These

  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself

Bragg, Billy Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Down by Law

  1986, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Billy Bragg:

"You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a vacuum. It'd be like me writing songs now about Margaret Thatcher. It'd just make no sense. But I think in the wake of 9-11 people are trying to articulate their feelings."

"And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got something to say. It's just a shame that such things have to happen for more people to get into it."

"And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away."

"That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians."

"I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in."

"To have accountability you must get out and vote!"

"A song is like a newspaper. It's capable of carrying a number of different messages. Some of them are advertisers, some of them are editorial, some of them are reportage, some of them are sport. So, as a songwriter you can use any of those."

"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."

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

"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."

"An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone."

"I try and write honestly about what I see around me now."

"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."

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

"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."

"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."

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

"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."

"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."

"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."

Billy Bragg