Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThat’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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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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 got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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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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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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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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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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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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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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