Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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 just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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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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To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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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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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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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 started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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I’m always a work in progress.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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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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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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