Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGTo do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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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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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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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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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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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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