That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGJust because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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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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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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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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