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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Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
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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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Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
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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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All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
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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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A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.
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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.
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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 liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
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As soon as you start analyzing something it stops.
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It's very hard to tour.
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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
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If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
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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 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 think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
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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 I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'
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Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
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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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Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.
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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'.