Famous Quotes

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

Billie Joe Armstrong on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."