Ramones Quotes
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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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Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.
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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 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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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'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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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 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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Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.
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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
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A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.
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As soon as you start analyzing something it stops.
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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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Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
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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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Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play.
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I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
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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 get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
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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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We're playing at our level of ability.
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Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.