Green Day Quotes
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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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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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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
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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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You just can't pull out the gun and blow the TV away anymore 'cause the baby might be sleeping.
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I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
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I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.
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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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I'm always a work in progress.
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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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We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.
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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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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 never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
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I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.
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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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To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.
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Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
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Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way.