A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSchool is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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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 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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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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 think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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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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