Green Day Quotes
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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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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
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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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I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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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'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.
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Our passion is our strength.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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I told my dad 'Yeah, I’m going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time you’re standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance'. And I did all that just like bam, you know?
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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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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've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
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It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
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I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.
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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump...