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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
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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Drug People Song
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
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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Fun Kids Together
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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Band Hate Stupid
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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Band Pride Trying
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New
It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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Different Parent Unique
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Body Country Lice
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
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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Ordinary World Radio Song
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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People Shut Up Waiting
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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Aggravation Art School
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
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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Punk Something Stupid Trying

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