Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

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  • I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.

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    "10 Questions for Billie Joe Armstrong". Time Magazine Interview, content.time.com. June 28, 2010.
  • 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.

  • There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

  • People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

    "Warning: Green Day Have Grown Up ... a Bit". Interview with Jaan Uhelszki, www.rollingstone.com. October 4, 2000.
  • 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. 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.

  • 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.

  • I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

    Source: collider.com
  • It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

    Source: collider.com
  • ‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

  • Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

    Acceptance speech at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, February 13, 2005.
  • If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

    "Song: Jaded ("Insomniac")". July 3, 1996.
  • There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.

    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • The darkness is coming now god dammit!

  • Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

  • History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

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

  • I'm always a work in progress.

  • The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.

    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

  • 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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    "10 Questions for Billie Joe Armstrong". Time Magazine Interview, content.time.com. June 28, 2010.
  • To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

  • I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

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    Billie Joe Armstrong

    • Born: February 17, 1972
    • Occupation: Musician