We are not afraid to be entertainers.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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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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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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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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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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