Green Day quotes
Albums
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1990)
- “I do not mind if all I am is just a friend to you, but all I want to know right now is if you think about me too.”
- Paper Lanterns
- “I take a look around and all these things I found, I call it blind hatred”
- Road to Acceptance
Kerplunk (1992)
- “My mental stability reaches its bitter end / And all my senses are coming unglued / Is there any cure for this disease someone called love / Not as long as there are girls like you”
- 80
Dookie (1994)
- “I don’t know you but I think I hate you”
- Chump
- “I declare I don’t care no more”
- Burnout
- “Throw my emotions in the grave, hell who needs them anyway”
- Burnout
- “Let’s nuke the bridge we’ve torched 2,000 times before. / This time we’ll blast it all to hell!”
- F.O.D.
- “I went to a whore / she said my life’s a bore / so quit my whining cause it’s bringing her down”
- Basket Case
- “Do you have the time/ to listen to me whine/ about nothing and everything all at once”
- Basket Case
- “I am one of those melodramatic fools/ neurotic to the bone/ no doubt about it”
- Basket Case
- “Bite my lip and close my eyes / Take me away to paradise / I’m so damn bored I’m going blind / And I smell like SHIT”
- Longview
- “I’m just roamin’ for the moment / Sleazin’ my backyard so don’t get / So uptight, you’ve been thinkin’ about ditchin’ me”
- When I Come Around
- “Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes/ Some call it slums, some call it nice”.
- Welcome To Paradise
- ” Your just a fuck I cant explain it cause I think you suck. Im tak-en pride in tellin you to Fuck Off and Die” F.O.D
Insomniac (1995)
- “I’m not part of your elite, / I’m just alright!”
- Stuck With Me
- “I’ve got a knack for fucking everything up, / My temper flies and I get myself all wound up”
- Bab’s Uvula Who?
- “The world is a sick machine, / Breeding a mass of shit.”
- Panic Song
- “Always move forward / Going straight will get you nowhere / There is no progress / Evolution killed it all, / I found my place in nowhere”
- Jaded
- “Talk is cheap and lies are expensive / My wallets fat and so is my head”
- Walking Contradiction
- “So stand aside and let the next one pass / Don’t let the door kick you in the ass”.
- 86
- “My mind is set on overdrive, / The clock is laughing in my face.”
- Brain Stew
- “Boxed up / All of her favorite things / Sold the rest at a rainy yard sale / Big plans and leaving friends and A westbound sign.”
- Westbound sign
Nimrod (1997)
- “Red eye, code blue, / I’d like to strangle you.”
- Platypus (I hate you)
- “It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right. / I hope you have the time of your life.”
- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
- “What’s the difference between you and me? / I do what I want, and you do what you’re told.”
- Reject
- “There’s a drought at the fountain of youth / now I’m dehydrating.”
- Hitchin’ A Ride
- “Don’t pat yourself on the back / you might break your spine”
- Nice Guys Finish Last
- “We’re living in repetition / containing the same old schtick again”
- Redundant
- “‘Cause I love you’s not enough / I’m lost for words.”
- Redundant
- “Sugar and spice and everything nice wasn’t made for only girls / GI Joe in panty hose is making room / for the one and only / King for a Day, Princess by dawn / King for a Day — in a leather thong…”
- “King for A Day”
Warning (2000)
- “Sanitation, expiration date, QUESTION EVERYTHING!/ Or shut up and be a victim of authority.”
- Warning
- “I here by solemnly swear to tell the whole truth/ And nothing but the truth is what I’ll ever hear from you.”
- Church On Sunday
- “Stepped out of the line/Like a sheep runs from the herd”
- Minority
- “I wanna be the minority / I don’t need your authority / down with the moral majority / ’cause I wanna be the minority’
- Minority
- “It’s a lifetime guarantee/Stuffed in a coffin 10% more free”.
- Macy’s Day Parade
- “Better thank your lucky stars.”
- Waiting
American Idiot (2004)
- “Don’t wanna be an american idiot/ Don’t wanna nation under the new media/ and can you hear the sound of hysteria/The subliminal mind fuck america.”
- American Idiot
- “Now everybody do the propaganda, / and sing along to the age of paranoia.”
- American Idiot
- “Maybe I’m the faggot America, / I’m not part of a redneck agenda.”
- American Idiot
- “I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies, / This is the dawning of the rest of our lives / On Holiday!”
- Holiday
- “I’m the son of rage and love, / The Jesus of Suburbia”
- Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia)
- “And there’s nothing wrong with me / This is how I’m supposed to be / In a land of make-believe / That don’t believe in me”
- Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia)
- “They say home is where your heart is / But what a shame / ‘Cause everyone’s heart / doesn’t beat the same”
- Jesus of Suburbia (City of the Damned)
- “I read the graffiti / In the bathroom stall / Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall / And so it seemed to confess / It didn’t say much / But it only confirmed / That the center of the earth / Is the end of the world / And I could really care less”
- Jesus of Suburbia (City of the Damned)
- “Dearly beloved are you listening? / I can’t remember a word that you were saying”
- Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)
- “Are we demented or am I disturbed? / The space that’s in between insane and insecure”
- Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)
- “Oh therapy can you please fill the void? / Am I retarded of am I just overjoyed?”
- Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)
- “I don’t care if you don’t.”
- “Jesus of Suburbia (I don’t care)”
- “To live and not to breathe / Is to die In tragedy / To run, to run away / To find what you believe”
- ”Jesus of Suburbia (Tales of Another Broken Home)”
- “And I walked this line / A million and one fucking times / But not this time”
- ”Jesus of Suburbia (Tales of Another Broken Home)”
- “Another Protester has crossed the line/ To find, the money’s on the other side”
- Holiday
- “Sieg Heil To The President Gasman/Bombs Away is your PUNISHMENT!/Pulverize the Eiffel Towers/Who criticize your GOVERNMENT!/Bang-bang goes the broken glass/Kill all the fags who DON’T AGREE!/Trials by fire/Setting fire/Is not a way that’s MEANT FOR ME!/Just ’cause/Just ’cause/Because we’re outlaws/YEAH!”
- Holiday
- “I walk this empty street/ On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams/ Where the city sleeps/ and I’m the only one and I walk alone”
- Boulevard or Broken Dreams
- “Starry nights, city lights coming down over me”
- Are We The Waiting
- “My name is Jimmy / and you’d better not wear it out / Suicide Commando that your momma talked about”
- St. Jimmy
- “Are you talkin’ to me? I’ll give you something to cry about!”
- ‘ St. Jimmy
- “Give me a long kiss goodnight, and everything will be alright / Tell me Jimmy, I won’t feel a thing”
- Give Me Novacaine
- “She’s a Rebel / She’s a Saint / She’s salt of the Earth / And she’s dangerous”
- She’s a Rebel
- “She’s a rebel / Vigilante / Missing link on the brink of destruction”
- “She’s a Rebel
- “Nobody Likes You / Everyone Left You / They’re all out without you / Having FUN”
- Letterbomb
- “Where will all the martyrs go / when the virus cures itself? / and where will we all go when it’s too late?”
- Letterbomb
- “You’re not the Jesus of Suburbia / The Saint Jimmy is a figment of / Your father’s rage and your mother’s love / made me the idiot America”
- ‘ Letterbomb
- “Summer has come and passed, / the innocent can never last, / wake me up / when September ends.”
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
- “Here comes the rain again / falling from the stars / drenched in my pain again / becoming who we are
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
- “He says, ‘We’re fucked up,’ but we’re not the same/ and mom and dad are the ones you can blame.’”
- Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)
- “There’s a glow of light / The St. Jimmy is the spark in the night / bearing gifts and trust / a picture in the city of lust”
- Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)
- “Jimmy died today / he blew his brains out into the bay / In the state of mind / In my own private suicide”
- Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)
- “Somebody Get me out of here / Anybody get me out of here / Somebody get me out of here / Get me the fuck right out of here”
- Homecoming (East 12th Street)
- “Here they come / marching down the street / like a desperation murmur of a heartbeat.”
- Homecoming (We’re Coming Home Again)
- “And forever in the darkest night / If my memory serves me right / I’ll never turn back time / Forgetting you, but not the times”
- Whatsername
- “From the bible of / None of the above / On a steady diet of / Soda Pop and Ritalin”
- “Jesus of Suburbia
- “Rage and love / story of my life.”
- “Are we the waiting”
Bullet in a Bible (2005)
- “I want you to sing so loud that every fucking red-neck in America hears you tonight, alright!”
- ”American Idiot [Live]
- “That’s my name and don’t you fucking wear it out”
- ”St. Jimmy [Live]
- “This song is not anti-American, it’s anti-war!”
- Holiday [Live]
- “Why are there no clouds in the sky? Because God wants to see his favorite band again!”
- -Tré
- “Roll roll roll a joint, twist it at the ends. Light it up, and take a puff, and pass it to your friends.”
- -Tré
- “Orange mocha frappachino!”
- -Tré
- “This next song’s a big ‘fuck you’ to all the politicians! This song’s called…’Holiday’!!!”
- Holiday [Live]
- “You have the fucking power, we are the fucking leaders: don’t let these bastards dictate your life or try to tell you what to do, alright!”
- Minority [Live]
- Tré Cool: This is a place of worship! A place of rock!
Mike Dirnt: What kind of place is this?
Tré Cool: This is a holy place!
Mike Dirnt: Why are there no clouds in the sky?
Tré Cool: Because God wants to watch his favorite band again!
- -Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt
- I’M SO BEAUTIFUL! FUCK!
- Tré Cool (While putting on eyeliner)
- Tré Cool: Rock and roll outfits… commence!
Mike Dirnt: Form of a super group!
- -Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt
- Fuck the dog – The dog’s dead. People are freaking out!
- -Billie Joe Armstrong
- Hmm… Dirty… That’s hot… This is my favorite…!
- -Billie Joe Armstong (While looking at pictures of the band)
- Wait! They don’t love you like I love you! Wait! They don’t love you like I love you! Wait! Wait!
- Mike Dirnt (Pretending to sob)
- Bill Schneider: There’s gonna be front tress fireworks that come off the top.
Billie Joe Armstrong: Good job.
Mike Dirnt: You did good.
Billie Joe Armstrong: That’s good. I like it.
Tre Cool: Good explaining.
Billie Joe Armstrong: That was good explaining, Bill Schneider. You’re a good ‘splainer.
- Joe Schneider, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool, and Mike Dirnt
- “We’re Green Day from Oakland, California, but I just want to say that England is now the official home of Green Day from now on.”
- Minority [Live]
- “to do something that you feel in your heart is great you need to make a lot of mistakes, everything successful is a series of mistakes.”
- Billie Joe
- “American Idiot is a whole take on the planet sort of vibe, you should do it at least once in your life.”
- Tre
- “No man can eat 50 eggs”
- Tre
- “I judge all you drummers, I’m watching you, hey.”
- Tre
- “I fully promote and love watching Tre be the best drummer in the world.”
- Billie Joe
- ” Tre Cool plays the drums in Green Day and he snorts…doughnut sprinkles”
- Tre
- “And my name’s George W. Bush…. actually my name’s ass hole”
- Billie Joe
- “Tré Cool is the greatest drummer in the history of rock music.”
- Billie Joe
- “Music to me it’s uhh… the air that I breathe, the blood that pumps through my veins, that keeps me alive, y’know? So uhh, without it, I – I dunno what I’d do – I mean, I’d probably have a job or something… people say to me, ‘What would you do if you didn’t have Green Day?’ – Or you know, people say, ‘What do you think of people that only talk to you or like you because you’re in Green Day?’ And I say, ‘Well, I AM Green Day. That is me… that is, my life.’
- Billie Joe
21st Century Breakdown (2009)
- “Violence is an energy/against the enemy/violence is an energy whoa-oh”
- Know Your Enemy
- “I’m here to honor you/If I lose everything in the fire/I’m sendin’ all my love to you”
- Last Night on Earth
- “Silence is the enemy”
- “Know Your Enemy”
- “Lay down your arms/Give up the fight”
- “21 Guns”
- “We will see how godless a nation we have become”
- “East Jesus Nowhere”
- “Did you try to live on your own?/When you burned down house and home/Did you stand too close to the fire?/Like a liar looking for forgiveness from the source”
- “21 Guns”
- “You’re a victim/Of the system/You are your own worst enemy/Know your enemy”
- “Restless Heart Syndrome”
- “Now call the assassin/The orgasm/ A spasm of love and hate”
- “Peacemaker”
- “She smashed her knuckles into winter/ As autumn’s wind fades into black/She is the saint of all the sinners? The one who’s fallen through the cracks”
- “¡Viva La Gloria!
- “Little girl, Little girl you dirty liar/ You’re just a junkie preaching to the choir”
- “¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
- “I was made of poison and blood”
- “21st Century Breakdown”
- “You’re in ruins”
- “21 Guns”
- “We are the cries of the class of ’13!/ Born in the era of humility!”
- “21st Century Breakdown”
- “I think I’m losing whats left of my mind”
- 21st Century Breakdown
Source: Wikiquote