I just plug in and let go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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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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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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