Top 100 Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
#1. What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
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#5. When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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#12. I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
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#14. 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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#16. Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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#19. I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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#20. 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.
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#21. I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
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#23. And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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#25. For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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#26. 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.
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#28. There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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#29. Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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#30. It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
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#35. When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.
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#37. I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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#38. 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.
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#40. I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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#42. Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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#43. I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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#44. 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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#45. I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world
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#47. We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!
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#51. And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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#52. 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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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#59. If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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#60. I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
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#61. Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
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#64. The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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#65. I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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#66. Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
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#67. 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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#69. My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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#71. If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
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#72. The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
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#73. 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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#75. That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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#76. I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
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#78. Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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#79. We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
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#81. One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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#82. 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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#83. I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
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#84. One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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#85. People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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#86. I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea
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#87. 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.
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#92. There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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#93. Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
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#95. Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.
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#96. Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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#97. 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.
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#98. 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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#100. I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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