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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Education Granted Music
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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Empathy People Thinking
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
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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Ordinary World Radio Song
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
I just plug in and let go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Funny Inspiring Letting
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fighting Kids Sleep
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World

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