Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPunk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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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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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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