Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
"School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?"
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Life, Future, Practice, School)
"The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Kids, Word)
"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
(Related: Music, Play, Popularity, Punk)
"We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
"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
(Related: Music, People, Arrogance, Hell)
"Moshing and broken glass just don't go together."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
"Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Life, Punk, Will)
"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
(Related: People, Want)
"I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Being, Want)
"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."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Art, Love, School)
"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
(Related: Life, Father, Want)
"I'm very monogamous."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
"If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Life, Old)
"If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Word)
"I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Time, Fact)
"Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Music, Punk, Sound)
"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
(Related: Guitar)
"No one's really happy anyway, it's not human."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
"I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Choice, Man, Old)
"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
(Related: Music, Neglect, Want)
"I hate celebrities. I really hate them."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Hate)
"I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Thought, Being, Today)
"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."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Being, End, Hate, Questions, Saying)
"If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Children, Drinks, Drugs, Want)
"Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Mistakes)
"A punk concert isn't fun without a pit."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Fun, Punk)
"Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Music, Education, Day)
"Our passion is our strength."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Strength, Passion)
"People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: People, Day, Old)
"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
(Related: Freedom, Individuality, Punk, Sense)
"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
(Related: Majority, Worship)