School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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I just plug in and let go.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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Our passion is our strength.
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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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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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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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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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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I’m always a work in progress.
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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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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