Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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 sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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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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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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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I just plug in and let go.
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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 like to keep my girlish figure
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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