Top 40 Best Ramone Quotes
#1. Just because you have to walk sometimes doesn't mean life isn't taking you places.
Melodie Ramone
#2. Over time, I have realized that at 20, you can wear too much makeup and people assume you're a slut. Do it at 40 and they think you're a sea witch.
Melodie Ramone
#3. Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.
Phil Ramone
#4. When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.
Kevin Shields
#5. If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.
Phil Ramone
#6. My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
Johnny Ramone
#7. Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
Melodie Ramone
#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.
Joey Ramone
#9. When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.
Tommy Ramone
#10. Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
Joey Ramone
#11. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#12. The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
Phil Ramone
#13. When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'
Dee Dee Ramone
#14. There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.
Phil Ramone
#15. 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.
Joey Ramone
#17. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#18. Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.
Dee Dee Ramone
#19. It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.
Phil Ramone
#20. I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.
Johnny Ramone
#21. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#22. I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.
Dee Dee Ramone
#23. Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
Johnny Ramone
#24. Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross ... they are the best.
Giorgio Moroder
#25. We were young. Love had a way of making us fearless because we knew that no matter what happened, if we fell on our face as we entered the ring or conquered the world in battle, in the end it would just be us, together.
Melodie Ramone
#26. No, I heard some of the staff talking. She's all bad, that one. They kicked her out of the Lollipop Guild for theft, yeah? And she did community service for bitch-slapping the Mayor of Munchkinland.
Alexander
Melodie Ramone
#27. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#28. To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
Joey Ramone
#29. I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.
Dee Dee Ramone
#30. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#31. I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me.
Dee Dee Ramone
#32. We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
Joey Ramone
#33. I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
Scott Ian
#35. Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
Dee Dee Ramone
#36. As soon as you start analyzing something it stops
Johnny Ramone
#37. 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?
Johnny Ramone
#38. Kid's little binges, his forays into intoxication were affecting everyone now. They were affecting their goals and dreams. They were affecting Natasha. She was probably drinking just to deal with him.
Melodie Ramone
#39. I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
Johnny Ramone
#40. When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.
Joey Ramone
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