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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’m always a work in progress.
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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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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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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 started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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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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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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