You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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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 never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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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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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 a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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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.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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