There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMusic to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Our passion is our strength.
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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 don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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