Green Day Quotes (42 Quotes)

It's weird. I mean, I consider myself kind of an ugly guy.

There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to fk off. So you might as well show someone how to do it.

Billie Joe- We were terrible tennants at the time. We ended up chopping up the stairs for firewood

Mike We write music for oursleves. If anyone else likes it, that's great.

Mike It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead.

We'll critise your government.

So make the best of this test and don't ask why, it's not a question but a lesson learned in time. I hope you had the time of you life.

Where ever the soldiers go, there goes the word of God.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life.

Summer has come and passedThe innocent can never lastwake me up when september endslike my fathers come to passseven years has gone so fastwake me up when september endshere comes the rain againfalling from the starsdrenched in my pain againbecoming who we areas my memory restsbut never forgets what I lostwake me up when september endssummer has come and passedthe innocent can never lastwake me up when september endsring out the bells againlike we did when spring beganwake me up when september endshere comes the rain againfalling from the starsdrenched in my pain againbecoming who we areas my memory restsbut never forgets what I lostwake me up when september endsSummer has come and passedThe innocent can never lastwake me up when september endslike my father's come to passtwenty years has gone so fastwake me up when september endswake me up when september endswake me up when september ends

I don't push my drums down I go through 'em. I use my body as a battering ram. I had some sports therapists yelling at me for not taking better care of my body. I got a concussion bake in Rhode Island--no,that's where I got thrown around by this bouncer. I got the concussion in New York City. The paramedics wanted to take me to the hospital right there. But I was like, 'No, I'm cool. It's not like I'm going to settle down. I thought it was funny. The thing is, I could never afford to just trash my drums like that before, until I got my deal with Slingerland.

I walk a lonely raod the only road that i have ever known.

Tr on their first tour bus It's, like, an ok tour bus and all, but people see book mobile on the side and come up and ask us if we have any books to sell. I mean how stupid is that....books We don't even read.

Billie Joe What do you mean we walked around dressed like girls They were our own clothes, they just happened to be dresses...

I wanted to be like the guy from Duran Duran. I wanted to play 16th notes and 'four on the floor' so bad. I was listening to punk all day and my uncle used to listen to heavy medal, and I really started paying attention to what the drummers were doing. I didn't get my own set until my dad sprung for a Pearl kit for my thirteenth birthday. I got headphones and a Walkman and I was playing along with The Cars, Zepplin, ACDC is the best way to learn how to play rock. They're the easiest drum parts ever, like they make you feel like you're king of the world almost right away.

(Billie Joe on his childhood-) ...and then there would be the punks that sit up on the plaza who were the scariest people, because ya know, they would kick your ass. Especially if you ended up showing up if you were like a new punk guy. They'd just, rip the shirt off your back. They were mean. Cruel people. (Interviewer-) Then of course you became one of them (Billie-) Yeah, ya know (laughter) But I was a nicer one for sure

Tr I don't understand a word of what Billie just said, so I will just talk about chickens.

This is how I'm supposed to be in the land of make believe that don't believe in me.

While the album, a social commentary about suburban malaise and global misguidance, comes with a parental advisory sticker, Green Day's concerts don't come with a warning about all the F-bombs Armstrong drops between songs. As the father of boys, ages 6 a

The movie looks inside our personalities and the stresses and the excitement of putting on pretty much the biggest punk show of all time.

Billie-Joe When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think he's listening to at that time Think about it.

Billie-Joe Slipknot They sound like Tr chocking on a hair ball

Billie Joe Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

I like to smoke a couple of hours before the show, to get in the right mood... I get mad when people are against pot. That's what makes me mad. It should be legalized. Do it Do it, but don't give the control to the big tobacco companies.

Tr Life is like breakfast you just mix all ingredients cause in your stomach it will all come together.

If you could see inside my head, then you'd start to understand the things I value in my heart.

Tr I told my dad Yeah Im going to be a drummer and he said well you can if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time youre 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

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. (as said by Billie Joe)

Mr. Armstrong pleased most of the audience he has timing, charisma and plenty of eyeliner, and he's not afraid to sweat. The fans know their stadium cues as well as he does, and they yelled all they could. But what may have been a fond parody of rock excess started to turn into, well, a stadium concert, complete with a full-length version of Queen's We Are the Champions, ... No time for losers.

Drums started to be the only thing I was excited about. School sucked. I was a bad student--too rambunctious, and I never paid attention. But bands were cool. I was totally into being in a band. I liked how bands looked at the awards shows, like the Grammy's, in their little sparkle suits. When you're a little kid, that looks pretty rockin' impressive.

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).

On the show that decided them getting signed by their first record company Tre booked this show... and he booked this show on a mountain top in Mendocino county. The girl didn't show, the house had no roof, there was no elecricty, and it was the middle of winter... and this is our preformance for Look Out Records. It was funny- someone in the middle of our set says Hey can you move your band I need to get my car out of here.

Fans and collaborators attribute this success to Green Day's return to punk's outspoken, politically volatile roots. There was an element of danger to pretty much anything the Clash or the Sex Pistols were saying, ... But if you look at the last five or six years, you'll see there's been no danger, or real statement that talked to kids directly 'What's your government doing What is your news telling you at six o'clock on Channel 4 Why do you have to believe that'

I met Mike in the fifth grade and started making music when we were about twelve, and the first song we ever learnt together was Crazy Train by Ozzy Osborne.

Apathy rules, f everyone.

(A strong beilife of Mike and Tre) One day, dogs are gonna rule the world...

(On people like St. Jimmy) A friend of mine was saying how he had a friend, ya know just one of those guys who would fly off the handle and, when they were really young, his parents had this brand new coffee table and he's sitting there, and he just took a knife and wrote Eat Sht.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

Billie Joe With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know Pretty and demented at the same time... like me...

Billie Joe I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

when some people talk to me, I can hardly wait for them to shut up. Like shut up, your a moron, I have nothing to say to you -Billie Joe (my God)

(When asked in 1992 where they would be in years time)Billie Joe I'm going to point a gun at Tr, Tr will point a gun at Mike and Mike will point a gun at me. Mike We're going to count to 3 then pull the trigger.