Green Day Quotes
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Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.
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I used to drink beer and smoke pot before I played. Now I drink tequila and smoke pot. So it's a little different...
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When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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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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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 would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
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I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Not only do they strike quickly, a lot of the plays they run look just like ours. I could really tell that they are a great team.
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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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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.
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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
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I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself.
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.