School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou’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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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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 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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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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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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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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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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