Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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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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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
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I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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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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It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.
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We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.