A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGEvery night I play as if my life depends on it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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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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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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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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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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If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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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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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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