I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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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.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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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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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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A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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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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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