Green Day Quotes

“You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“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

“‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Dont test me,
Second guess me,
Protest me,
You will DISAPEAR!

(East Jesus of Nowhere)”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“She smashes her knuckles into winter
As autumn's wind fades into black
She is the saint of all the sinners,
the one whose fallen through the cracks...

(iViva la Gloria!)”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Y'know?”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“To know you is to hate you, so loving you must be like suicide.”
― Billy Joe Armstrong

“I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.”
― 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

“Remember, do the things that you fucking believe in, alright? This is what it's all about right now. [MTV Awards 2005]”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.”
― Mike Dirnt

“I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“We put the fun in dysfunctional.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“What do you do when your kid can only count to four? Buy him a drumkit and call him gifted!
- Tré Cool, Flypside, 1992”
― Green Day

“Change must come before it's too late, the nature destroyed forever we shall not find.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Y'know, when I first started listening to punk rock music, I used to get my fucking ass kicked for it! I was known as a fucking freak! But now I'm amongst many many many freaks here with me tonight!
- Billie Joe Armstrong,Stay The Night, Reading Festival 2013”
― Green Day

“I took the second microphone as Green Day lyrics appeared.
Our moms' old favorite. I shook my head as my gaze met Tanner’s, but a thrill went through me. We belted out words with the confidence of kids subjected to lots of nineties music. Jordan would have been proud.”
― Becky Dean, Hearts Overboard