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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Athlete Brother Way
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Records Rocks Technology
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
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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Emotional Gutters Song
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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Before Groove Making Started Stuff
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
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
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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Band The Goal World
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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Album Done Ordinary World
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
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
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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Mean Money Some Successful Teacher

Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.

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