Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes About Punk

Quotes about: Punk

• Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Punk, Lifestyle, I Can

• Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Individuality, Way, Individualism

• There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Play, Band, Clue

• A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Men, Punk, Trash

• Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sound, Punk, Lifestyle

• A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Punk

  "Green Day: Keeping Their Edge". Book by Matt Doeden (p. 23), 2006.

• We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Writing, Heart

• A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Live Concerts, Pits

• I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Football, Rocks, Oakland

• For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, People, Green

• The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, Rocks, Punk

• A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Punk, Mainstream

• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Kids, Ipods

  Source: collider.com

• Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Stupid, Trying, Would Be

• Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Firsts, Punk

• Punk 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Clubs, Down And

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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