Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGNever run in the rain with your socks on.
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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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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 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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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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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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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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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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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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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.
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