The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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 wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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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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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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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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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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