The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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