Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

I wanted to be in a rock band. That's all I ever wanted to do.

Later when I was in Mithibai College, Mumbai, I was a singer for a rock band.

I feel that it was my destiny to play with Led Zeppelin, and of course I had the chance and I did it to my best ability.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.