You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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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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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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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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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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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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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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