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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Embodies Lifestyle Punk
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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Band Rocks Roll Synching
Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
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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Birthday Memories Older Thinking
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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Background Broke People Quested The Question
I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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Majority Sick Thinking
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Culture Records Rocks
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Care Hippie Want
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New

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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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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