Ramones Quotes
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When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
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I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.
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All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
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It's very hard to tour.
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When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'
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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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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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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
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As soon as you start analyzing something it stops.
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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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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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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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Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.
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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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My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
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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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We're playing at our level of ability.
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Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
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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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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
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People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
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I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
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When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.