You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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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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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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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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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Our passion is our strength.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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