Green Day Quotes
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.
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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 can't stop bleeding and I can't stop having sex with corpses.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
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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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Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
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Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
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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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Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings...
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
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Roll, roll, roll a joint, twist it at the end, light it up, take a puff, pass it to you're friend.
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.