History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGAnd you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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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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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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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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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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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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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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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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Our passion is our strength.
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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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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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I just plug in and let go.
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