Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWith the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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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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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.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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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.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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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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