Green Day Quotes
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
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Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.
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They should legalize pot! Do it! DO IT!
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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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 loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.