Joey Ramone Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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

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#5. We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.

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

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#8. What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

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#9. Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

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#10. Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

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

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#12. Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can't get back.

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#13. For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

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#14. 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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#15. The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

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#16. 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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#17. I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

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

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#19. I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.

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#20. If your not in it you're out of it.

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#21. I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're ... they're very self bloated.

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

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#23. Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

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#24. Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

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

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