Ramones Quotes
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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 enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
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We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.
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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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If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
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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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We're playing at our level of ability.
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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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Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
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I hope no one thinks we really sniff glue. I stopped when I was eight.
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I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.
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If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.
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I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.
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You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.
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You can't change music by yourself.
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I think it would be nice to be a prince.
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I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
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Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
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It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan.
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The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.
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Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?
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There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.
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That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.
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I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.