Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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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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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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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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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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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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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'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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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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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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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'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
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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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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
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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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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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.