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Green Day was more of the influence than Blink. -- Deryck Whibley
When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out. -- Deryck Whibley
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. -- John Lydon
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades. -- Adam McKay
You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way! -- Tre Cool
I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that. -- Ashton Irwin
It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums. -- Dane DeHaan
I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&B artists such as Drake and Rihanna. -- Lexi Thompson
I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest. -- Ashlee Simpson
When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage. -- Joel Madden
When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that. -- Pete Wentz
At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics. -- Sarah Addison Allen
There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better. -- Nick Cave
I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day's 'Bullet In A Bible,' the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It's a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band. -- Ashton Irwin
For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it's my generation's The Who's 'Tommy' or Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' It was an album that really spoke to a generation. The theatrical show encapsulates that feeling and brings it to an even wider audience. -- Jake Epstein
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want. -- Tre Cool
Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys. -- Ted Nugent
I used to make love to Green Day's music. But 9 minutes? I'm not Superman. -- Doug Benson
I wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15. -- Frank Iero
Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad . . . were still pretty damn good. -- Mike Dirnt
When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome. -- Matthew Healy
Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!? -- Hayley Williams
I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay. -- Avril Lavigne
And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed. -- Florence Welch
Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. -- Jonny Greenwood
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. -- Jack Antonoff
I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again. -- Jane Wiedlin
The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome. -- Jake Epstein
No man can eat fifty eggs -- Tre Cool
I write everything on a xylophone! -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Opinons are like assholes, Everybody's got one! -- Mike Dirnt
Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops? -- Tre Cool
I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons -- Mike Dirnt
just cause? just cause because we're outlaws -- Green Day
There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to f**k off. So you might as well show someone how to do it -- Green Day
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after. -- Bob Brown
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. -- Bill Shankly
The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender. -- DJ Khaled
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. -- Bill Watterson
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans. -- Bruce Babbitt
My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.' -- Ryan Reynolds
The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay. -- William Butler Yeats
Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him. -- Count Basie
I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day. -- Laini Taylor
So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner. -- Dita Von Teese
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince. -- Cassandra Clare
And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold. -- Mervyn Peake

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