I just plug in and let go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGOne thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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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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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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