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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWith age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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 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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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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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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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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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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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