I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGCoffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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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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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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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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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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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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