When all else fails…be a rockstar
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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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 have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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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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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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