Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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'We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world'
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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When all else fails...be a rockstar
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You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.
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One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it's always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you're taking. You're not telling people to think, you're telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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I just plug in and let go.
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.