What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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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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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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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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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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