No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou don’t get nothing and like it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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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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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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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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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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