Top 100 Ramone Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross ... they are the best.
Giorgio Moroder
#3. I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
Scott Ian
#4. I always say the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone
Green Day
#5. 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
#6. At the door I paused. 'So what was your spirit animal?'
'A dolphin. Fun in the sun, endless summer. What about you?'
'Dee Dee Ramone,' I said, and left.
Elizabeth Hand
#7. He checked in under the name Dee Dee Ramone and paid cash for his room. He
Stephen King
#8. Just because you have to walk sometimes doesn't mean life isn't taking you places.
Melodie Ramone
#9. 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
#10. Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.
Phil Ramone
#11. 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
#12. My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
Johnny Ramone
#13. Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
Melodie Ramone
#14. 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
#15. When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.
Tommy Ramone
#16. Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
Joey Ramone
#17. 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
#18. The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
Phil Ramone
#19. When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'
Dee Dee Ramone
#20. There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.
Phil Ramone
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.
Phil Ramone
#26. I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.
Johnny Ramone
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
Johnny Ramone
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
Joey Ramone
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
Joey Ramone
#39. 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
#40. As soon as you start analyzing something it stops
Johnny Ramone
#41. 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
#42. I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
Dee Dee Ramone
#43. I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.
Phil Ramone
#44. Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat.
Phil Ramone
#46. Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.
Melodie Ramone
#47. Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.
Johnny Ramone
#48. Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right
Dee Dee Ramone
#49. I love you, Silvia. I have always loved you. I loved you before forever began and I'll love you still after forever ends.
Oliver
Melodie Ramone
#50. One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.
Tommy Ramone
#51. When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it's generally the stuff that has to do with somebody not wanting to do things their way in the studio.
Phil Ramone
#52. 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
#54. I enjoyed my life when I had nothing ... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
Joey Ramone
#55. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#56. I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
Dee Dee Ramone
#57. It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another.
Malcolm Reynolds
Melodie Ramone
#58. 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
#59. Nothing bothers me more in this world than a person who behaves as a sheep and not as a dragon.
Melodie Ramone
#61. Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.
Joey Ramone
#62. My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
Johnny Ramone
#63. Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
Johnny Ramone
#64. That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.
Johnny Ramone
#65. The thing about insanity is that when you're around it long enough you become part of it.
Marky Ramone
#67. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#68. All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
Dee Dee Ramone
#69. I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
Dee Dee Ramone
#70. Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play
Joey Ramone
#72. When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
Dee Dee Ramone
#73. It was sad when Sid Vicious died ... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
Dee Dee Ramone
#74. You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.
Phil Ramone
#75. All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
Joey Ramone
#76. We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.
Dee Dee Ramone
#77. I never wore earplugs - that would have been cheating.
Johnny Ramone
#78. I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don't want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don't know.
Dee Dee Ramone
#79. Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can't get back.
Joey Ramone
#80. Just Silvia Cotton, not hurt or ticked off ... Just Silvia Cotton and she's just fine ... and I love her
Melodie Ramone
#81. There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.
Dee Dee Ramone
#82. I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.
Melodie Ramone
#83. I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
Dee Dee Ramone
#84. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#85. If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
Johnny Ramone
#86. 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
#87. I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."
Phil Ramone
#88. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#89. No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
Dee Dee Ramone
#90. 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
#91. I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next ... But it was always someone else instead of me.
Dee Dee Ramone
#92. Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
Johnny Ramone
#93. The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
Joey Ramone
#94. 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
#95. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#96. I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.
Johnny Ramone
#98. I didn't cry right away. I couldn't decide if it were sorrow or relief I felt that he was gone. I decided that it was both, but those are two emotions that are difficult to feel at the same time.
Melodie Ramone
#99. 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.
Johnny Ramone
#100. I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
Johnny Ramone
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