Green Day Quotes
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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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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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 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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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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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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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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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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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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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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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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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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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.