You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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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 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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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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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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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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