Joe Armstrong Quotes

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

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.

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.

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

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.

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

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.

I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea

You don't get nothing and like it.

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

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.

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

You don't mow another man's lawn!

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

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

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.

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.

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.

I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world

I just open my mouth and out it comes.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)

Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.

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

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.

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

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.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.