It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSet 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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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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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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