Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at 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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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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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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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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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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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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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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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