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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman
Billie Joe Armstrong
" I just open my mouth and out it comes."
- Billy Joe Armstrong.
"'Welcome to Montreal-- f*** you', would be a good sign at your highways."
"Adrienne is the only woman I will ever love." -Billie Joe (sadly)
"All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid!" -Billie joe
"Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.” -Billie Joe
"Aw, how the f*** are you all doin' tonight?... That's what I f***in' wanted to hear, goddamnit!"
"B-I-L-L-I-E J-O-E. My real name is Billie Joe. And it's southern, my moms from Oklahoma and that's how I got the name." -Billie Joe
"Do I want to change the world? To a certain extent yeah. It needs to be changed... it needs a kick up the ass.” -Billie Joe
"Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem." -Billie Joe Armstrong
"Don't blame me for the explosion of punk rock. I didn't know our music was going to get that big." -Mike
"Hey, who's that kid with Madonna?" -Billie Joe on Rove. See http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/funny-pictures-horse-in-car.jpg for the picture he was speaking of.
"History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly." -Billie Joe
"How many punk rockers does it take to screw in a light bulb (Tre: how many?) uh… um…um let me think… two! One to screw in the light bulb and one to suck my dick." -Mike
"I actually have less friends now than I ever had." -Billie Joe
"I don't really listen to it...I'm agnostic." (When asked about if he liked UK pop music) -Mike
"I fucking hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fuckin' backwards ass hillbilly shit." -Billie Joe
"I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid." -Billie Joe
"I hate celebrities. I really hate them." -Billie Joe
"I have a Rolex collection and a diamond collection. I'd like to find the biggest goddamn diamond I could find, eat it and pick it out of my shit the next day." -Mike
"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
"I kind of became everyone’s weird uncle. I was drunk all the time wearing a f***ing leopard g string." -Billie Joe
"I like to keep my girlish figure" -Billie Joe
"I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now." -Billie Joe
"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." -Tre Cool
"I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman." -Billie Joe
"I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man." -Billie Joe
"I told my dad "Yeah I’m 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 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?” -Tre Cool
"I'll remember 1994 as the year that ... ate shit ..." -Mike Dirnt
"I'm gonna be cremated. I don't want to be stuck in any box. Maybe they'll bury me upside down and plant a seed in my ass.” -Mike
"I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!" -Billie Joe
"I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade." -Billie Joe
"It's good to have some offspring...oops..shouldn't say that word, can you edit it out?" -Tre Cool
"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." -Tre Cool (talking about their old tour bus)
"Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1%, lie about it” -Billie Joe
"Lets count the waves...one, one thousand, two one thousand" -Tre Cool
"Life is like breakfast you just mix all ingredients cause in your stomach it will all come together.” -Tre' Cool
"Now are any of these vegetables magic? I mean if I rub that bean on my foot will I run faster?" -Mike Dirnt
"One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak." -Billie Joe
"Our passion is our strength." -Billie Joe
"Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point"
"Putting that song (time of your life) on our record was probably the most punk thing we could do." -Mike
"Satan. Satan, Satan,'' he chanted. ``That's what's different. We're all firm believers in Satan now. We think Satan is cool. ``How the f*** do you think a band like Green Day got popular?'' (talking about how he doesn't belive they sold out)" -Tre Cool
"Slipknot? They sound like Tré chocking on a hair ball!” -Billie Joe
"The darkness is coming now god dammit!" -Billie Joe
"Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fuckin' thing" -Mike
"There are weeks when I'll spank a lot, and other weeks I'll be apathetic and lonely and won't want to look at my cock." -Mike Dirnt
"There is no place like home, when you got no place to go"-Billie Joe
"There is not a band you can mention that we haven’t kicked their ass at one time or another." -Billie Joe
"They should legalize pot, do it! Do it!!!" -Tre Cool
"This song's off our album. It's called Kerplunk. It's kind of in line with the shit thing, ya know, it's like you take a dookie and it kerplunks in the toilet." -Billie Joe
"We write music for oursleves. If anyone else likes it, that's great' -Mike Dirnt
"What? You can heckle me if you want, it's okay I won't understand!" -Billie Joe (at a foreign concert)
"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
"Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it." -Billie Joe
"Yeah f*** me! I wish all of you could f*** me!" -Billie Joe
"You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground." -Billie Joe
"You think your life is tough? Try being a parent!" -Billie Joe
(At Mark Hoppus of blink-182): "Stop throwing shit or I'll jump in there and beat your ass." -Mike
(On Who's Most Accident Prone): "It used to be Mike, but lately I've been catching up." -Tre' Cool
(Talking about Mike taking a shit off the hotel balcony): "She was so pissed, so she was gonna make us leave the hotel..but she didn't. big mistake!" -Tre Cool
A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'.
So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'
So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?'
and I say 'No that's trendy!' -Billie Joe Armstrong
All of my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars
-Mike Dirnt
Anything that is sucsessful, is a series of mistakes
-Billie Joe Armstrong
Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
Good. If you don�'t like Green Day, you�'re stupid.
- Nick Rose - Pulse Weekly
Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day is like sex. When we good we're really good! When we're bad... we're still pretty damn good!
- Mike Dirnt
I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone. -Tre Cool
I can suck my own
-Tre Cool
I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg. -Tre Cool
I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents. -Tre Cool
I have a message for all the kids out there-
I never finished high school and I'm very rich and very successful!
- Tre Cool
I have no clue of what Billie just said so I'm just gonna talk about chickens. - Tre Cool
I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation. -Tre Cool
I want you to sing so loud that every f*cking redneck in America can hear you tonight.
- Billie Joe Armstrong (at their London concert)
I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump. -Tre Cool
I'm down with JC. He's cool.
- Tre Cool (when asked about Jesus Christ)
I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you. -Tre Cool
I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna f*cking swear a lot - Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck. -Tre Cool
If my daughter didn't rebel, she wouldn't be my daughter.
- Mike Dirnt
In five years, I will be pointing a gun at Tre, Tre will be pointing a gun at Mike and Mike will be pointing a gun at me. We'll count to three and pull the trigger. - Billie Joe Armstrong
In regards to the story on the Kerplunk cover The Diary of Laurie L) "I thought it was kinda lame. The story was great. Totally hilarious. But it was too much. Kinda like turning us into a parody of ourselves." -Billie Joe
It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo. -Tre cool
It's not about the way you pick your nose its where you place the booger that counts - Tre Cool
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.
My daugter gives me an excuse to watch cartoons.
- Mike Dirnt
My mom was from Oklahoma, hence the name Billie Joe...It's not William Joseph it's just Billie Joe." -Billie Joe (obviously)
Never jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand. & the cactus' feelings. -Tre Cool
Never run in the rain with your socks on. - Billie Joe Armstrong
No man can eat 50 eggs!
- Tre Cool
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one.
- Mike Dirnt
Our 'Waiting' video was totally a failure. MTV doesn't show any videos anymore. If we had a booty video - if we had, like, McG with girls shaking their ass in the video - it would probably get played. Actually, I am just really bitter right now.' - Billie Joe
Punk's dead and I fucking killed it
- Billie Joe
Are you Canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now.
- Billie Joe
It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won�'t help you when you're dead.
- Mike Dirnt
I don't see anything on it, all I see is shows. There is never anything on it. Just MTV talking about how cool MTV is.
- Tre Cool
Mmm, you can almost smell the burning pork...Hey, you ever thrown rocks at cops?
- Tre Cool
You know, I knew the day that George Bush was elected President that we were in deep, deep shit. I knew it. I was like, 'Well, some shit's gonna hit the fan now,' 'cause, you know, the Bush family's been in the politics business for way too long to not have crazy enemies.
- Tre Cool
I want to wash your grandmother.
- Tre Cool
Music has never been at a better time than it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.
- Tre Cool
Orange Mocha Frapichinos!
- Tre Cool
Roll, roll, roll a joint,
Twist it at the end,
Light it up and take a puff,
And pass it to your friends
-sung by Tre Cool (on Bullet in a Bible DVD)
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, so why practice? - Billie Joe Armstrong
Sharing successful and unsuccessful pick-up lines on U.S. television show, 100 percent: Mike Dirnt: 'Hi. I'm Mike. I'm a tourist.'
Billie Joe Armstrong: [turns toward Mike, still sitting on couch & says this as if he were talking to a very attractive woman] 'Wanna have sex and get married?' [long, silent pause] 'Oh... sorry.'
(Billie turns back to his original position, a sheepish grin on his face. Everyone laughs)
Tre Cool: 'Why don't you ditch the zero and get with the hero.'
Mike Dirnt: (laughs) 'Yeah, that one works every time.'
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. -Tre Cool
The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls. -Tre Cool
The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
There is nothing wrong with being a loser as long as your good at it. - Billie Joe Armstrong
They always say ain't that a bitch.Thats why the call them the obitchuaries. -Mike Dirnt
Time passes like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that. -Tre Cool
We put the fun back in 'dysfunctional' - Billie Joe Armstrong
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. -Tre Cool
Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God." -Billie Joe
When an English band makes it in America, they feel like they've really made it.
When an American band makes it in England, they feel like they've really f*cking made it.
- Mike Dirnt
When my first child was born, I was wondering if she was going to take her next breath, every minute. ~Tre Cool
When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100mph, drunk, who's tape do you think they would be listening to at that time? Think about it. - Billie Joe Armstrong
When you are a master of your own crafts, you can do anything.
-Billie Joe Armstrong
Why are there no clouds in the sky? Because God wants to watch his favourite band once again.
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way! -Tre Cool
You may be the runer up but the first one to lose the race. -Billie Joe, Horseshoes & Handgrenades
“Everyone is entitled to our opinion.” -Tre Cool
“I am no longer married, so ladies... there you go.” -Tre Cool
“I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.” -Tre
“It's my f***ing life and - you know what? - nobody invited you... so there's the door.”
“We kick ass now. We've seen a million faces and we rocked them all.” -Tre Cool
“You gotta play for as many people as you can. It's, like, if someone wants to see you, and they, you know, can't, then that's lame.” -Tre Cool
"Ah, if someone falls down, please pick him back up cuz it doesn't mean that there's a f***in' camera in your face that you don't have to lookout for each other." -Billie Joe
"I like to drink about a pint of Mike dirnt's piss every night before we go on stage. It's good for your metabolism... If you can keep it down." -Tre Cool
"You can't fuck with us now. We did it. We pulled it off." (talking about the record that was stolen and how they created a better album anyway) -Tre Cool
"You're the f***ing leaders, you have the power. Don't let these bastards dictate the rest of the world, or dictate you f***ing life!" -Billie Joe
(Speaking of blink-182) "Seriously, at first I was happy for them, but now I find it a little irritatign. I think they trivialise what we do, and punk rock in general. It's like throwing shit in the face of something or someone that had substance at one point. Didn't one of the members marry someone from MTV? I mean, what the f***? But if any band should be pissed off at them then isn't NOFX." -Mike
"What do you mean we walked around dressed like girls? They were our own clothes, they just happened to be dresses...” -Billie Joe
"You'd think we were really good at writing songs or something." -Tre Cool
"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 Armstrong
"You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?" -Billie Joe
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