For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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That’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.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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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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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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