Green Day Quotes
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When all else fails...be a rockstar
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.
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I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!
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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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There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.