Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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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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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Our passion is our strength.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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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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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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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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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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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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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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