Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

• You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Inspirational

• The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Inspirational

• To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Inspirational

• 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

  Topics in Family, Honesty

• 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

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in People

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punk

• The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in – there’s a reason a small town is called a small town: It’s because not many people want to live there.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Home

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tough

• My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Brother

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Minority

• I’ve been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rock

• I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conform

• I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punk

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Sound

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rules

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in People

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Politics

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punk, Rock

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Song

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Depends

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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