Mike Dirnt
Mike Dirnt
Michael Ryan Pritchard, known professionally as Mike Dirnt, is an American musician best known for being the co-founder, bassist, backing and occasional lead vocalist of the American punk rock band Green Day. He has also played in several other bands, including The Frustrators. His stage name was originally a nickname from his friends at grade school, as he would constantly play "air bass" and make a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth4 May 1972
CityBerkeley, CA
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For a long time we were regarded as the Susan Lucci of the Video Music Awards, ... because we could just never, we were nominated, like, 14 times or something before we ever got one.
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It's this total epic, theatrical number, so to hear it on the radio, it feels like you're doing something that's groundbreaking.
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Now are any of these vegetables magic? I mean if I rub that bean on my foot will I run faster?
believe kind life-after-death
I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
real thinking important
I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
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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.
thinking next-week silence
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
balls
Grab life by the balls and squeeze.
rocks world proud
It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.
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I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone
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It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead
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Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.
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A turtle does come in it's own bowl
coffee needs sometimes
Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.