I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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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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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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 sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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