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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Heart Mistake Successful
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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Band Rocks Roll Synching
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
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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Mainstream Punk Rocks
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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Drug People Song
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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Ordinary Rocks Special World
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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Character Country Differences Thinking
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Celebrities Hate People
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Playing Saws Swimming
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Green People Rocks
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like

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