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
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWith my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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 think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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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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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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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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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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