You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThey have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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The 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.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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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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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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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.
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