Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
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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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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 think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.
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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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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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I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
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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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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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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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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.