Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGJust because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Our passion is our strength.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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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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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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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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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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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’m always a work in progress.
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