Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
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You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.
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I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
