Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPunk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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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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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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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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