Never run in the rain with your socks on.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGOne thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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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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Our passion is our strength.
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