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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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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.
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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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 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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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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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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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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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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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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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