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Love Quote by 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"

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Armstrong stacks dream jobs like a kid piling stickers on a notebook: earnest, random, and deliberately impossible to cash in all at once. The repetition of "I'd love" is doing the real work here. It’s not a plan; it’s a pulse. Each line is a small flare of desire, the kind you feel when you’re bored with the version of yourself the world already recognizes. You can hear the restless Green Day spirit in it: impatience with staying in one lane, suspicion that adulthood is mostly a series of closed doors you’re told to call “choices.”

The list is funny because it escalates from plausible self-improvement (art school, drawing, Spanish) to the absurd flex of "brain surgeon". That jump isn’t just a punchline; it’s a critique of how we rank ambition. We praise curiosity until it starts sounding like reinvention, then we demand credentials, timelines, and seriousness. Armstrong’s phrasing refuses that policing. He’s claiming the right to want things without converting them into a résumé.

There’s also a pop-cultural subtext in "art school" that’s hard to ignore: the myth of the artist as someone who needs institutional permission to be “real.” Coming from a musician who made a career by bypassing gatekeepers, the line reads like a wink at the insecurity even successful artists carry. Under the humor is a familiar ache: the life you chose still contains a crowded room of other lives you didn’t get to try.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Armstrong, Billie Joe. (2026, January 15). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-love-to-go-to-art-school-id-love-to-learn-how-39346/

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Armstrong, Billie Joe. "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." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-love-to-go-to-art-school-id-love-to-learn-how-39346/.

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"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." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-love-to-go-to-art-school-id-love-to-learn-how-39346/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is a Musician from USA.

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