Ramones Quotes
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For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
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All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
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I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.
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When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.
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It's very hard to tour.
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As soon as you start analyzing something it stops.
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I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.
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I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don't want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don't know.
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When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves.
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Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.
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When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'
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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
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My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
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Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
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Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
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There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
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We're playing at our level of ability.
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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
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I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
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As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
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I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
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I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.