History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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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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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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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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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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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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I’m always a work in progress.
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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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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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