Words matter. These are the best Green Day Quotes from famous people such as Matt Skiba, Lexi Thompson, Chad Gilbert, Ashlee Simpson, Jane Wiedlin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn’t really sound anything like Alkaline Trio.
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.
When we started, our style of music wasn’t on MTV. It wasn’t cool, and it wasn’t popular. The only bands who were even kind of similar were Blink-182 and Green Day. But we don’t sound like those bands, even if people throw us in that category now.
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.
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.
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.
Green Day were heroes of mine growing up.
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.
I’ve been known to high-five, and I have a soft spot for Green Day.
There’s a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It’s not punk, it’s not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out.
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.
Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.
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.
You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn’t safe… that’s the Green Day way!
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.
When I was in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, Green Day was my formative entry to punk. I wish I could say I was listening to Minor Threat and Black Flag, but I wasn’t. Bay Area punk bands were doing it right.
Like Good Charlotte, Green Day had a huge influence on me. Just the way they play live and the energy they bring to a show is incredible. They can really command a whole stadium.
I just feel really lucky to have had some hits because we had a lot of time where we didn’t have them. It’s better to have a hit. You can ask anyone – U2, Green Day – and they’ll tell you the same thing.
If you told me in the ’90s that I’d be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you.
‘Jesus of Suburbia’ is such a dynamic song from start to finish; it’s nine minutes of craziness and hectic-ness and emotion… It’s one of those songs where I know that for the next couple of days, I don’t have to go to the gym, because I got my workout running around the stage and thrashing to Green Day.
I’m glad we’re not splattered all over MTV, because I don’t think that’s entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day – they were built up – and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people.
I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.
Everybody else was quoting 2Pac, and I was running around with Green Day in my Walkman. Racially speaking, I wasn’t cool or appropriate for any group.
Green Day is a band that you always felt had something to say, whether it was about the times or love or heartache.
The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.
I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They’re brilliant at it.
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
My love of Green Day is on so many levels. It’s their genius for songwriting, the fact that they write about very important subjects, both personal and political, and they’re just a timeless band.
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.
