What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhen we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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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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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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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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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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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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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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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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