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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGFor some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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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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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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