I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhat I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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When 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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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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I just plug in and let go.
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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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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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