Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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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 started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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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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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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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
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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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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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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.