Green Day Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
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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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We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.
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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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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
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I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else.
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It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
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I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.
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I'm always a work in progress.
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We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.
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We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f - -n' believe in, because this is what it's all about.
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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.
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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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You just can't pull out the gun and blow the TV away anymore 'cause the baby might be sleeping.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
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It has different feels to it, like the song has different tempos and intensities, and Sam pulled it off.