Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
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I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.
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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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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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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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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
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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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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)
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You don't get nothing and like it.