Top 41 Quotes About Joey Ramone: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Joey Ramone

#1. Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

Chris Cornell

#2. I always say the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone

Green Day

#3. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

Thomas Browne

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

Joey Ramone

#5. 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.

Joey Ramone

#6. I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.

Brian Lamb

#7. He thought for a while of Mithradates, whose system learned to thrive on poison. He cheated assassins, who made the mistake of using small doses, and was pickled, not destroyed.
Tutto fa brodo.

Saul Bellow

#8. 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.

Joey Ramone

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

Joey Ramone

#10. 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.

Joey Ramone

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

Joey Ramone

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

Joey Ramone

#13. I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

George Carlin

#14. 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'.

Joey Ramone

#15. If you're reading this, then maybe you know you ought to read everything. And maybe you know you ought to read deeply. Because there's witchery in these words and spellwork in the spine.

Traci Chee

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

Joey Ramone

#17. 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.

Joey Ramone

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

Joey Ramone

#19. Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

Joey Ramone

#20. You okay?" He moved past her into the kitchen and deposited his beer bottle in the sink. "You're all flushed."
"I'm fine," she said a little too quickly. "It's hot in here, that's all."
Oh sure. It was a little hot anywhere he was. The kitchen ... the living room ... the polar ice caps ...

Sara Humphreys

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

Joey Ramone

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

Joey Ramone

#23. 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

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

Joey Ramone

#25. You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting about George W. Bush. It's like Leftist Tourette's Syndrome. "Why did Obama blow out the budget?" "BUUUUUUUSHHHH!!!!!

Ben Shapiro

#26. Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world.

Redd Foxx

#27. 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

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

Joey Ramone

#29. Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

Angie Martinez

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

Joey Ramone

#31. All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.

Mario Andretti

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

Joey Ramone

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

Joey Ramone

#34. 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.

Joey Ramone