Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou don’t get nothing and like it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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If 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.
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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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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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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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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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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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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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