Goldshot Bragg Quotes

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Henry Bragg ~ William Henry Bragg

The revoloution is just a T-shirt away. ~ Billy Bragg

Mature material. Where once he had hollered through ~ Rick Bragg

Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century ~ Rick Bragg

life is too short to dance with an ugly woman ~ Rick Bragg

Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced. ~ Melvyn Bragg

Only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control. ~ Rick Bragg

She was as pretty as sunshine on roses. ~ Rick Bragg

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it. ~ Billy Bragg

If you cannot eat what you want in the South, life is not worth living. ~ Rick Bragg

If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman ~ Billy Bragg

That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee tables in Greenwich Village. ~ Rick Bragg

How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team? ~ Billy Bragg

If one piddles correctly, time just goes away, without regret on the part of the piddler, or even any particular notice. ~ Rick Bragg

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. ~ Melvyn Bragg

Now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel that we have all grown up too soon. ~ Billy Bragg

The revolution is just a T-shirt away.

- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward ~ Billy Bragg

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve. ~ Billy Bragg

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country. ~ Billy Bragg

West Virginia is among the nation's leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor. ~ Rick Bragg

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. ~ Billy Bragg

Baptists burn more slowly. ~ Billy Bragg

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. ~ Rick Bragg

You can dream on welfare. You can hope as you take in ironing. It is just less painful if you don't. ~ Rick Bragg

He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in.

- King James Version ~ Billy Bragg

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

But I just stood there, trapped somewhere between my long-standing comfortable hatred, and what might have been forgiveness. I am trapped there still. ~ Rick Bragg

[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom. ~ Billy Bragg

How do you not love a place where the faded beads from a parade six years before still hang in the branches of the live oak trees. ~ Rick Bragg

That night, he just picked, and they let the liquor run through their blood, circle their heart, and soften their heads, like a pillow, without laying down. ~ Rick Bragg

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands. ~ Billy Bragg

Some people are just interesting. They can't help it. They just are. ~ Rick Bragg

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again. ~ Billy Bragg

On every pack leaned an M16, except Lori's. Her son was playing soldier with it in the bleachers. There was no clip in it, which was a good thing. ~ Rick Bragg

Seems like nothing goes right
For the world oh that we were born in
But the horizon is bright
Because yonder comes the morning in ~ Billy Bragg

The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it. ~ Rick Bragg

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

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. ~ Melvyn Bragg

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground. ~ Billy Bragg

These were people ... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people. ~ Rick Bragg

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right ~ Melvyn Bragg

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth. ~ Billy Bragg

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

They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as far as you did. ~ Rick Bragg

To be a Southerner, or to live Southern, is to feel, well, something special even in the quiet, something fine in itself after all those rebel yells and fight songs have finally faded into silence. ~ Rick Bragg

Light brings us the news of the Universe. ~ William Henry Bragg

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience. ~ Billy Bragg

War what is it good for? It's good for business. ~ Billy Bragg

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

I write late into the night at the Tutweiler in downtown Birmingham, and try hard to turn down that second cheeseburger at Milo's over by UAB, which has the best one in the whole wide world. ~ Rick Bragg

Capitalism is like fire: keep it under control and it will give you heat and light; leave it untended and it will consume everything in its path. ~ Billy Bragg

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us. ~ Billy Bragg

And although the world was just the same as it had always been as I travelled home on the Tube that evening, my view of it had been changed forever. ~ Billy Bragg

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. ~ Billy Bragg

Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea ~ Billy Bragg

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. ~ Rick Bragg

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses. ~ Billy Bragg

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for. ~ Billy Bragg

Me?" said Bragg. "I'm not alive. Revived, from time to time - maybe. but not alive."
Liar."
Try me."
You forget, Mister Bragg - Stu honey - Stuart darling - Bragg baby. I already have."
They had almost reached their destination.
Col said: "I don't have burn marks for nothing, my dear. I don't have these scars by chance. I'm covered with your fingerprints. Covered from head to toe and back again on the other side."
You sound just like Minna," said Bragg.
I know," Col said. "I know I do. I've been practising. ~ Timothy Findley

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo ~ Billy Bragg

One: Don't kill yourself.
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody else, but if you have to, better if it ain't fam'ly. ~ Rick Bragg

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened. ~ Melvyn Bragg

It is one thing to be sure of yourself. It is another to have someone tell you to quit dancing, look them in the eye, and tell them the truth even if it hurts your pride. ~ Rick Bragg

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules. ~ William Henry 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. ~ Billy Bragg

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

They named him James, for Charlie's daddy. In the South, you do not have to love someone a real whole lot to name a child for them. It is just something you do, naming the first boy after his grandfather. ~ Rick 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. ~ Billy Bragg

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week. ~ William Henry Bragg

To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music. ~ Melvyn Bragg

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. ~ Billy Bragg

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. ~ William Lawrence Bragg

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards. ~ Billy Bragg

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built. ~ Billy Bragg

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven. ~ Rick Bragg

He crashed a dozen Cadillacs in one year and played the Apollo. With racial hatred burning in the headlines, the audience danced in the seats to a white boy from the bottomland, backed by pickers who talked like Ernest Tubb. "James Brown kissed me on my cheek," he says. "Top that. ~ Rick Bragg

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment. ~ Rick Bragg

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.' ~ Rick Bragg

Don't worry about what people think, because once it's all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don't love you will, too. ~ Rick 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. ~ Billy Bragg

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of. ~ Billy Bragg

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse. ~ William Henry Bragg

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. ~ Billy Bragg

You have never slept until you have been rocked to sleep by a willow tree, the whole think creaking as the wind pushes it back and forth. There was something about being up high, up in the green and the breeze, something safe about it. ~ Rick 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. ~ Billy Bragg

The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment "Now." As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past. ~ William Lawrence Bragg

The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words. So the atoms are combined in equal variety to form what are called molecules. ~ William Henry Bragg

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend. ~ Rick 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. ~ Billy Bragg

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous. ~ Rick Bragg

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine. ~ Rick Bragg

The infinite variety in the properties of the solid materials we find in the world is really the expression of the infinite variety of the ways in which the atoms and molecules can be tied together, and of the strength of those ties. ~ William Henry Bragg

Everyone went and had some turkey and cornbread dressing, and hot biscuits, and mashed potatoes running with butter, and when they prayed, they thanked God for the good fortune that had found their boy, who had sense enough to know that if you're going to be hit by a train, you have to go stand on the tracks in Memphis, Tennessee. Amen. ~ Rick 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. ~ 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. ~ Billy Bragg

And, thought it is far too late, I must say how sorry I am for letting my feelings for my father keep me for so long from his people, from my grandmother, especially. I am told she loved without condition, loved my mother and love us boys. I never gave her a reason. It was just the kind of person she was. ~ Rick Bragg

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. ~ Billy Bragg

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves. ~ William Henry Bragg

They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made. ~ Edward S. Bragg

Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then that would be a life which take every ounce of her strength. She wanted no less. She loved to see the shapes and strokes of line and turn them into words: she loved the idea of battling against enemies external and internal and all her will being consumed in that battle. ~ Melvynn Bragg