Mike Dirnt Quotes - Page 2

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• Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

  Mike Dirnt

  Coffee, Needs, Sometimes

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• First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.

  Mike Dirnt

  Phones, Cells, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There's no way you could get me onstage with someone that I didn't like. No way. I would never do that. We have our gripes and stuff like that. All bands have their drama, but life is too short to be miserable around somebody that you don't like.

  Mike Dirnt

  Drama, Life Is Too Short, Band

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I hate saying that youth is wasted on the young since it's so f**king stupid, but I think you realize if you're fortunate enough to realize what you have, you don't want to sleep as much or squander any time. It's weird, but early in your career you don't stop to smell the roses since you're too busy picking them.

  Mike Dirnt

  Kings, Hate, Stupid

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

  Mike Dirnt

  Rocks, World, Proud

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• When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

  Mike Dirnt

  Song, Smell, Rats

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• I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

  Mike Dirnt

  Believe, Kind, Life After Death

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• I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone

  Mike Dirnt

  World, Said, Ramones

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• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Giving

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• For me, when you get to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there's a side of me that goes, "What does that mean? Are you still relevant after that? Do they put you on the shelf along with the award?" I don't know, but that's the last thing we wanted.

  Mike Dirnt

  Mean, Awards, Rocks

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I look at my kids as the Harry Potter Generation. There's a sense of justice about that, in beating Voldemort. It's a classic tale of good versus evil. To have a role model like Harry Potter that says you can defeat evil, but still be a complicated human being. That gives me a lot of hope.

  Mike Dirnt

  Kids, Evil, Giving

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

  Mike Dirnt

  People, Unity, Important

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

  Mike Dirnt

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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