With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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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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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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