Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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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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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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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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