Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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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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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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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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