Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.
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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
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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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We are not afraid to be entertainers.