Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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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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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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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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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Our passion is our strength.
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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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To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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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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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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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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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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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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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.