Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Writing, Information

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• You don't mow another man's lawn!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Men, Lawns, Another Man

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• The darkness is coming now god dammit!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Darkness

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• In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Writing, Political

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• Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Jesus, East, Tests

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• 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

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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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Believe, Mean, Long

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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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Pride, Trying, Band

  Q Magazine interview, January 2015.

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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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Kids, Ipods

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Style, Would Be, Want

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• I just open my mouth and out it comes.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Mouths

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• I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, People, Drug

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

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• One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Son, People, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rooms, Stage, Mike

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• I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Bags, Want

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• With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Son, Play, Music Love

  Source: collider.com

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• I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: greendayminority.tumblr.com

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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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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• If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Stupid, Hate, Band

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• I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Girl, Baby, Boys

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• Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Green

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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!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Dream, Broken, Video

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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. 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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