Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhen I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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