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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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Donna Grant

"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

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Donna Grant

"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."

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Donna Grant

"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."

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Donna Grant

"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."

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Donna Grant

"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."

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Donna Grant

"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."

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Donna Grant

"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."

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Donna Grant

"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward."

Being

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"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."

Being

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon."

Art

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out."

Word

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me."

Life

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good."

Children

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt."

America

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"A punk concert isn't fun without a pit."

Fun

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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."

Guitar

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Billie Joe Armstrong
"Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted."

Music

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