Joey Ramone Quotes

1. Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.  






2. Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

3. (when they play "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" at concerts) We played to an audience of five, but that's only if you include the bartender's dog.

4. Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.




5. We're the only band that kept the guts, and kept the excitement, and kept the belief, you know. We never sidetracked. We never went the way of the Clash, and never wanted to get into the discotheques that bad.

6. 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.

7.  I enjoyed my life when I had nothing...and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

8. We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin...overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.



9. The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

10. When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion.

11. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

12. (on the Ramones first performance at CBGB's) I'd just like to say this gig sucks!

13. The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

14. Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

15. To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

16. In our position, we've always done well, but we just haven't had that hit yet that put us over the top. We always break even.

17. Grass is for smoking not for throwing.

18. When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

19. To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying "This is who I am".

20. I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.


21. I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band.


22. We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.

23. The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either.

24. All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.


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