Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

• If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

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• Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

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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.

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• Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.

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

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• School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

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• 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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• 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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• The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

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• We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

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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.

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• What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it’s almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they’re taking it to the hilt.

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

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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.

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• I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

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

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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.

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• And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

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• Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

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Billie Joe Armstrong (51)

Birth:	17th December, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and occasional actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist, principal songwriter, and guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day, which Armstrong co-founded with Mike Dirnt. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network.

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