Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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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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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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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 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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It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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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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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'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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You don't get nothing and like it.
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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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Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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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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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.