I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGAttack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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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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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Our passion is our strength.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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