Melvyn Bragg quote: "The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society."

The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g...
MELVYN BRAGG

In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,...
MELVYN BRAGG

I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe...
MELVYN BRAGG

The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we...
MELVYN BRAGG

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
MELVYN BRAGG

We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse...
MELVYN BRAGG

I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.
MELVYN BRAGG

I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
MELVYN BRAGG

I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega...
MELVYN BRAGG

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.
MELVYN BRAGG

It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -...
MELVYN BRAGG

I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh...
MELVYN BRAGG

We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ...
MELVYN BRAGG

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste...
MELVYN BRAGG

Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser...
MELVYN BRAGG

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.
MELVYN BRAGG

It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t...
MELVYN BRAGG

As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.
MELVYN BRAGG

Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,...
MELVYN BRAGG

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num...
MELVYN BRAGG

Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never...
MELVYN BRAGG

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ...
MELVYN BRAGG

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
MELVYN BRAGG

I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ...
MELVYN BRAGG

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an...
MELVYN BRAGG

I'm a class mongrel.
MELVYN BRAGG

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other...
MELVYN BRAGG

More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
MELVYN BRAGG

I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli...
MELVYN BRAGG

The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea...
MELVYN BRAGG

The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a...
MELVYN FANCY

Your word is your bond.
MELVYN DOUGLAS

Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it.
MELVYN DOUGLAS

A three-pint problem
MELVYN SMALL

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carrie...
RICK BRAGG

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ...
RICK BRAGG

To have accountability you must get out and vote!
BILLY BRAGG

A song is like a newspaper. It's capable of carrying a number of different messages. Some of them ar...
BILLY BRAGG

A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. ....
BILLY BRAGG

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

Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable,
BILLY BRAGG

Mermaid Avenue Vol. II,
BILLY BRAGG

The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o...
BILLY BRAGG

And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got so...
BILLY BRAGG

They were the true inheritors of the mantle of The Clash.
BILLY BRAGG

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

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

Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th...
MELVYNN BRAGG

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu...
BILLY BRAGG

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they sho...
BILLY BRAGG

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ea...
RICK BRAGG

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
BILLY BRAGG

You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a ...
BILLY BRAGG

And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.
If you stick around, I'm sure we can find so...
BILLY BRAGG

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportun...
BILLY BRAGG

The revolution is just a T-shirt away.

- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
BILLY BRAGG

This is our showpiece this season, we're tickled.
GARY BRAGG

Welcome to what we're calling 'I'll Be Your Bobby Tonight'.
BILLY BRAGG

But I hope that I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books,
by books that are bo...
RICK BRAGG

In the Mountains, they cooked, too.
Joe Godwin made liquor in Muscadine. Moe Shealey made it in...
RICK BRAGG

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
RICK BRAGG

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

A lot of people broke their arms on these cranks; it's similar to what was used on early cars.
GARY BRAGG

Maybe a few dozen are left.
GARY BRAGG

This is Cat history. Compared to the feeding and caring of horses, this was wonderful.
GARY BRAGG

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

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world....
BILLY BRAGG

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
BILLY BRAGG

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

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go ...
BILLY BRAGG

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved...
BILLY BRAGG

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro...
BILLY BRAGG

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

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

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come...
BILLY BRAGG

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own persona...
BILLY BRAGG

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of ...
BILLY BRAGG

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which ...
BILLY BRAGG

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou...
BILLY BRAGG

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t...
BILLY BRAGG

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

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real ...
BILLY BRAGG

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
BILLY BRAGG

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a jo...
BILLY BRAGG

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

- ...
BILLY BRAGG

Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bott...
RICK BRAGG

The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and...
RICK BRAGG

One: Don't kill yourself.
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody e...
RICK BRAGG

These were people who remembered the weight of the cotton sack, people with grease under their finge...
RICK BRAGG

Our lives are righteous that's why we are living forever for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO

My message is that if you enjoy it and are in the mood for it, eating dark chocolate is fine. Just d...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE

The intimacy and spiritual relationships or connections that one can have with their significant oth...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE

As you raise the levels of HDL cholesterol, the risk of heart attacks and strokes can decrease.
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE

People think it's bad for them. While abuse of anything is a problem, some chocolates actually have ...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE

Historically, things that are bad for you are the things you want. But research shows that's not alw...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE

All things under heaven are now in God's supervision for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO

The wisest thing to do in order to be happy is to believe & trust in God! Alleluia! Amen!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO

The happiness we bring in the World is the happiness of our God in Heaven! Alleluia! Amen! <3 O:)...
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO

Thinking right makes us good;
Thinking Heaven gives us joy;
Thinking God makes us wise!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
WILLIAM BRAGG, SR.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of th...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b...
WILLIAM BRAGG SR.

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules ...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

I've often been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper - and breakfast as well
WILLIAM BRAGG SR.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
WILLIAM BRAGG SR.

[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their poi...
WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG

I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contac...
WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG

They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for hi...
GENERAL EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG

The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society.

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The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society.

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