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Billie Joe Armstrong

"I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing."

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"I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing."

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"So I started to learn guitar right away."

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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

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"I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine."
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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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