Top 185 Quotes & Sayings by Billie Joe Armstrong
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Billie Joe Armstrong.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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.
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.
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.
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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.
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.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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.
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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.
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.
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.
There are always young bands playing in their garages. 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.
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
I love storytelling.
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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.
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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.
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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.
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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.
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.
I'm very monogamous.
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.
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?
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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.
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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.
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.
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
Our passion is our strength.
We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
?The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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.
Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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.
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
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.
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