Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Our passion is our strength.
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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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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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 thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
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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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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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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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
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When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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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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And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
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We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f - -n' believe in, because this is what it's all about.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.