Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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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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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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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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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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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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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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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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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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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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