The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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.
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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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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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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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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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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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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