Top 100 Billie Joe Quotes
#1. Y'know, when I first started listening to punk rock music, I used to get my fucking ass kicked for it! I was known as a fucking freak! But now I'm amongst many many many freaks here with me tonight!
- Billie Joe Armstrong,Stay The Night, Reading Festival 2013
Green Day
#2. You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
Gordon Korman
#3. There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.
Mike Dirnt
#4. I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
Florence Welch
#6. I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#13. Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#14. 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
#15. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#17. People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#20. 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!
Billie Joe Armstrong
#22. I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world
Billie Joe Armstrong
#23. 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
#24. That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#25. I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
Billie Joe Armstrong
#26. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#30. I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#31. It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#32. I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#33. That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#35. My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#36. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#37. 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
#40. My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#42. If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#43. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#44. Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#45. I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.
Green Day
#46. I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#47. The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#50. Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
Billie Joe Armstrong
#51. I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#52. If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#53. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#54. I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#55. Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#56. School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Billie Joe Armstrong
#58. We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#59. Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#61. Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#63. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#65. I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#67. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#68. 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
#69. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#70. 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
#72. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#76. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#81. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#82. 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
#87. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#88. I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
Billie Joe Armstrong
#90. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#92. I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#93. 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
#94. For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#96. And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#98. I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today
Green Day
#99. 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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#100. 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
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