Green Day Quotes
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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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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.
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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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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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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I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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I’ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and I’ve finally found my home. I’ve been looking for drums like these my whole life. True American hot rod custom kits. From the look and sound to the service and attention, it’s good to now be a part of the SJC family.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.