Never run in the rain with your socks on.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGJust about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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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 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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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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 started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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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 like to keep my girlish figure
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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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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