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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

Billie Joe Armstrong

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Culture Records Rocks
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
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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Balance Musician Parent
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New
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.
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Men Punk Trash
The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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Character Daughter Thinking
When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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Drunk Someone Thinking Time
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Playing Saws Swimming
I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Prozac Used Working
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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Anything Heart Mistake Successful
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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Emptiness Looks Rage
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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About Forever Mean Song
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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Autumn Wind Winter
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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Athlete Sports Believe
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Perfect Practice School
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Deeper Obviously Songs

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