I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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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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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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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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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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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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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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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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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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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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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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