Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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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.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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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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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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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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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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