Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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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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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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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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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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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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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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