Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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