Green Day Quotes
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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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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 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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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'm always a work in progress.
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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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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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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 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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I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else.
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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 like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.
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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.
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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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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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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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My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.
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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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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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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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Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
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There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.