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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

Billie Joe Armstrong

That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Musicians Rock Music Rocks
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Playing Saws Swimming
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Fun Ipod Kids
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
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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Culture Records Rocks
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
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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Air Blood Veins
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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Autumn Wind Winter
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Country Differences Thinking
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving

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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