You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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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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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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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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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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