What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPunk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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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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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 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 can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Our passion is our strength.
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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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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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