Guess quote

Billie Joe Armstrong [1972-0] American

Rank: 101
Musician

Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor who is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt.

Music, Beauty, Amazing, Dad, Education, Experience, Freedom, Future, Great, Sports, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.	Education, Music	101
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.	Great	102
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.	Music	103
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.	Music	104
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.		105
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.	Freedom	106
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.		107
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.		108
I'm very monogamous.		109
Our passion is our strength.	Strength	110
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.	Beauty	111
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.		112
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.	Music	113
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.		114
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.		115
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.		116
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?	Future	117
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.		118
There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.		119
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.	Experience, Music	120
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.	Beauty	121
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.		122
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.		123
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.		124
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.		125
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.		126
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?		201
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.		202
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.		203
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.	Amazing, Sports	204
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.		205
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.		206
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.		207
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.		208
Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.		209
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.		210
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.		211
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.		212
I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.		213
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.		214
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.		215
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.		216
We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.		217
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.		218
I love storytelling.		219
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.		220
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.		221
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.	Dad	222
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.		223
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.		224
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.		225

The script ran 0.006 seconds.