Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
-
Music will always be my greatest passion.
-
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
-
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
-
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-
I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
-
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
-
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
-
A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
-
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
-
I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
-
Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
-
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
-
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
-
I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
-
I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
-
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
-
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being. Fuck being an asshole, what you pussies thought it was twenty years ago.
-
Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don't have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.
-
Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.
-
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
