Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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