My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThat was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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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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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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The 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.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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