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 hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
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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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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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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'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
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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 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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I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.
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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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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 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'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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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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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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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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
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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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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."
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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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.
