Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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I just plug in and let go.
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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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.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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