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Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
Billie Joe Armstrong
American
Musician
Born:
Feb 17
,
1972
Just
Music
Old
People
Punk
You
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There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Good
You
Nothing
Wrong
How
Loser
Just
Depends
Being
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Some
Consumer
Going
Conform
Need
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
Time
You
Change
Tough
Drop
Hat
Structure
Take
Songs
Come
Spontaneous
Because
How
Go
Up
Same
List
Going
Same Time
Lists
Requests
Next
Set
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Billie Joe Armstrong
Future
School
Practice
Perfect
Nobody
Practice Makes
Practice Makes Perfect
Makes
Why
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
Freedom
Me
Punk
Own
Sense
Way
About
Individuality
Always
Doing
Ultimate
Been
Represents
Your
Things
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Today
Me
Thought
Would
Obnoxious
Never
Am
Get
Being
Where
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Life
Me
Will
Punk
My Life
Drop
Embodies
Lifestyle
Never
Dead
Just
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Live
Songwriter
Tower
Inward
Ivory
Just
Being
Want
Turns
Who
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Youth
Extreme
Worship
Paranoid
Taking
Almost
Hilt
Cult
La
America
Going
Much
Mecca
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
People
Political
Band
Think
Tell
Just
Want
Them
We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Every
Other
Everything
Record
Had
Put
Like
Make
Just
I'm very monogamous.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Very
Monogamous
Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
Billie Joe Armstrong
You
Changing
Way
Rules
Out
Constantly
Records
No Rules
Put
Anymore
Formats
Really
Your
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
You
Punk
Beauty
Punk Rock
Mainstream
Supposed
Know
Rock
Always
Lot
Going
Radar
Below
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
God
Family
Me
Honesty
Fear
Our
Kids
Able
About
Putting
Talk
Without
Them
Things
I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Old
Since
Rock
Rock And Roll
Been
Years
Roll
Now
Playing
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk
Band
Say
Definitely
Oakland
Punk Rock
Would
Football
Rock
Rock Band
Raiders
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Music
Experience
People
Punk
First
Young
Punk Rock
Bay
Madden
Some
Rock
Rock Music
Hearing
Green
Green Bay
Young People
Packers
Ever
Playing
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
You
Sports
People
Amazing
Believe
Complete
Athletes
See
Total
Highest
Highest Level
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Even
Now
Level
Things
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
Time
Home
You
People
First
Live
Small
Small Town
Town
Because
First Time
Escape
Want
Reason
Many
Our passion is our strength.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Strength
Passion
Our
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Happy
Human
Anyway
Really
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
You
Punk
Beauty
Young
Punk Rock
Mainstream
Supposed
Know
Rock
Always
Lot
Bands
Going
Radar
Playing
Below
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
Life
Old
My Life
Rage
Lyrics
Seem
Look
Emptiness
Empty
Full
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
Guitar
Approach
Guitar Playing
Finesse
More
Instrument
Lot
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Playing
Fragile
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Broken
Together
Broken Glass
Glass
Go
Just
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