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It's very hard to tour.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Tour
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I used to be a hairdresser.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Hairdresser
Used
Used To Be
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I think it would be nice to be a prince.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Nice
Thinking
Would Be
Be Nice
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I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Done
Rap
Wells
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I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Band
Rocks
Wanted
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
New York
Band
Expensive
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I like California a lot more than New York these days.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
New York
California
These Days
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When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Looks
Mets
Said
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We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Tour
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Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Closets
Tonight
Wonder
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Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Crazy
Demonic
Metallica
Crazy Know How
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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Believe
Died
Nelson
Rock Star
Rocks
Stars
Ricky
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Not Good Enough
Rap
Trying
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I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Bigs
Giving
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I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Like
Big
Myself
Back
Congratulate
Give
Pat
Thank
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Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Artistic
Serious
Sound
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If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Absurd
Discredit
Thinking
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I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Proud
Song
Writing
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I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Rap
Throat
Trying
Early Days
Shove
Throats
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Extremes
Lines
Thinking
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I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Mean
Significant
Song
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I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Distance
People
Thinking
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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 / Songwriter
Car
Bass
Guitar
Amp
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Mainstream
My Favorite
Records
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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 / Songwriter
Quiet People
Rude
Scared
Thinking
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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 / Songwriter
Expected
Lucky
Next
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I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
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Solo
Solo Career
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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 / Songwriter
Sad
Crazy
Cried
Died
Lizzy
Sids
Vicious
Freaked
Phil
Thin
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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 / Songwriter
Troublemaker
Right Back
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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 / Songwriter
Boys
Party
Rap
Solo
Spotlight
Billboard
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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 / Songwriter
House
People
Play
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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 / Songwriter
Punk
Punk Rock
Ramones
Rap
Rocks
Tired
Cool Time New
Idol
Quit
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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 / Songwriter
Band
Care
People
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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 / Songwriter
Self Destructive
Besides
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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 / Songwriter
Kings
Contests
Dismay
Ramones
Rap
Winning
Exactly
Fellow
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I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Caring
People
Strong
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
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Ramones
Cover
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I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.
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Dream
Cities
Night
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The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Issues
Play
Ramones
Song
People New Old
Deciding
Issue
Main
Material
New Material
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The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.
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Different
Distance
Past
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I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Pop Song
Progress
Rough
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Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.
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Coffee
Drinking
Song
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I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"
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Festivals
Silly
Sound
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Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.
Dee Dee Ramone / Songwriter
Important
Play
Rocks
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