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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
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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Mainstream Punk Rocks
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
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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Band Pride Trying
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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Humble Mean Talking
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
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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Air Blood Veins
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Lists Next Song Structure
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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Home Naps Ordinary World
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
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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Autumn Wind Winter

Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

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