I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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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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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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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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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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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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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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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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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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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Our passion is our strength.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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 never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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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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I’m always a work in progress.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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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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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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