My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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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 approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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