Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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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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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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This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
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I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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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 got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
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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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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?