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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGNo one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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 just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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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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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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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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With 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!
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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