Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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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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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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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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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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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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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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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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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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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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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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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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