Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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