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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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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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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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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
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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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