Johnny Ramone Quotes

#1. My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

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#2. I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.

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#3. I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.

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#4. I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

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#5. 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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#6. Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

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#7. 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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#8. I try to make a dent in people when I can. 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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#9. You can't change music by yourself.

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#10. As soon as you start analyzing something it stops

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#11. 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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#12. Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

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#13. 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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#14. My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I never wore earplugs - that would have been cheating.

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#19. Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

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#20. 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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#21. For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that image was anger. I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

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#22. Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

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#23. 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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#24. I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.

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#25. I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

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#26. I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

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#27. 'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

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#28. I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

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#29. We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.

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#30. Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

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#31. I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.

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#32. It was a job, and I was just doing my job.

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#33. 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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#34. I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me.

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#35. A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

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#36. I never sweat, which you might notice in pictures.

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#37. I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

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#38. As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.

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#39. The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.

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