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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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Autumn Wind Winter
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Men Stupid Thinking
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
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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Album Done Ordinary World
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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Background Broke People Quested The Question
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
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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Band Rocks Roll Synching
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
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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Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking

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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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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