Green Day Quotes

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"Our manager was playing us the Longview video like 'this other band is going to destroy the world.' They're tearing up furniture, and I'm like, 'damn! That's so fucking cool!' Then we played with you guys in '94 or '95 in New York. We were at the peak of the Blue Album cycle. I remember you asking the crowd to spit. There were thousands of guys spitting these massive loogies, and you would go around picking them out of the air and swallowing them. I was like 'he's just the greatest frontman ever.'"

- Rivers Cuomo (source)

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"I keep thinking about the amount of hit singles that will be played at Hella Mega. It's going to be the best DJ set ever, for multiple hours."

- Billie Joe Armstrong (source)

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"I think my favourite line on the whole of Revolution Radio is the first one, 'I'm running late to somewhere now I don't want to be' which in my eyes is a very universal statement whether you're talking about rehab, your job, or a bad relationship."

- Billie Joe Armstrong (source)

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"About 20 years ago, I let a kid play my bass, and he thought it would be cool to smash it at the end. It took everything I had not to knock his fucking teeth out."

- Mike Dirnt (source)

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"I'd been sober for about four years when [Revolution Radio] came out. It sounds corny but when you've been sober for a while you start to have an internal rebirth. Somehow you feel more alive and in tune with yourself. It's like a new beginning, and you can definitely hear that on the record in songs like Still Breathing or Somewhere Now."

- Billie Joe Armstrong (source)

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"I asked Green Day what their goals were because they have already achieved almost every goal a band has. And Mike said 'well, we want to play stadiums.'"

- Jonathan Daniels, manager (source)

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"I was stoked when [Fall Out Boy] inducted us into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I felt they were kindred spirits in the way they created culture around their band to make it fun for the fans."

- Billie Joe Armstrong (source)

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"We live an alternative lifestyle, but within that we find normality. I was doing these insane workouts, running around a lake in Oakland. I stopped one day and started walking, and I thought, 'what the fuck am I working out so hard for? I don't have anything coming up.' A good reason to tour is having a great record. We're playing half of it and the fans are loving it."

- Mike Dirnt, 2017

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"Going sober, I had to face the damage that was going on internally in my life and [Revolution Radio] ended up being a big expression of that."

- Billie Joe Armstrong (source)

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"I love watching Mike and Tré play [Longview]. I like to watch the musicianship, hearing Mike play that bass line."

- Billie Joe Armstrong, 2017

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"Having Revolution Radio come out was a really exciting period. This record is the most focused I've been in a long time. Whenever you write a record you run the risk of your ideas not appealing to certain sections of society, but there's something about the energy we have that people get into and that's never changed. I feel like I was trying to challenge people on the album - as I always try to - as well as giving them something to relate to."

- Billie Joe Armstrong (source)

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"Sometimes I have to get a B12 shot just to keep up. But I actually have more energy now than ever. I have a sense of gratitude every night, and now that we're touring again, I have a reason to get dressed in the morning."

- Billie Joe Armstrong, 2017

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"Yesterday, we were playing and Mike looked over at me, and I flicked this imaginary booger at him. He caught the imaginary booger in his mouth. Little shit like that is still cool."

- Tré Cool, 2017

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"Perry was a cool part to play, and it was really fun to be doing something that people might not typically associate with me. I just like making things, basically - everything stems from boredom and keeping busy is my solution to that."

- Billie Joe Armstrong on Ordinary World (source)

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fan: hey you guys who don’t know what the fuck slamming is, slamming’s not violent- it’s aggressive, we’re not seeing who we can punch assholes

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