Green Day Quotes
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That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
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I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.
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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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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
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I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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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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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
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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.
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And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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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've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.
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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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Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings...
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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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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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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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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My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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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.