History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGAnything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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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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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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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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We’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.
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