Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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I’m always a work in progress.
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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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 never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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When 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.
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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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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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