Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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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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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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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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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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