We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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Our passion is our strength.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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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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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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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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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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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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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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