The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGTo 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
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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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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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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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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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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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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