Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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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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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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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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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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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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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.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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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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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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