Green Day Quotes
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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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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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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 matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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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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I can't stop bleeding and I can't stop having sex with corpses.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
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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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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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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I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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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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Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.