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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI just plug in and let go.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Our passion is our strength.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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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 sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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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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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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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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