Quotes by Joey Ramone - Page 1

If your not in it you're out of it.
Joey Ramone / Musician
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Lack of skill dictates economy of style.
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Economy
Skills
Style
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We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
Joey Ramone / Musician
Ramones
Stayed
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There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.
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Ramones
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Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
Joey Ramone / Musician
Rock N Roll
Rocks
Special
Roll
Lifeblood
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When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.
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Band
Blondie
Form
Wish
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I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.
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Fun
Mean
Rocks
Spirit
Rock
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All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
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Attitude
Punk
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Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can't get back.
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Hair
Weight
Wells
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The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'
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Runaway
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Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
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Rock N Roll
Rocks
Thinking
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Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.
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Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.
Joey Ramone / Musician
Nobody
Days
Music Great Feel
Guns
Picked
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Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play
Joey Ramone / Musician
Life
Play
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The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.
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Answers
Captains
Eagles
Airwaves
Captain
Ruled
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
Joey Ramone / Musician
Happy
Being Happy
Enjoyed
Ideas
Just Being
Life Me My Life
Nothing
Had
Life Me Nothing
Idea
My Life
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The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
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Fountain
Ramones
Youth
Experiencing
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Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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Foundations
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Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.
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Marriage
Dying
Fifty
Years
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The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it.
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Forced
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Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.
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Filled
Hills
Neighborhood
Rich
Rich People
Snobby
Forest
Screaming
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One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.'
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Me Day One Day
Johnny
Phone Call
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To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
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Emotion
Lennon
People
Punk
Music Me People
Elvis
Emotions
John
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Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.
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Believe
Giving Up
Unique
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To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
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Grain
Individual
Punk
Standing
Who I Am
I Am Me Who
Against
Going
Being
Me
Am
Saying
Standing Up
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I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.
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Beach
Beach Boys
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It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan.
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Dolls
Glitter
Manhattan
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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.
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Real
Rocks
School
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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 / Musician
Kids
Business
Big Business
Enlightenment
Frustration
Growing Up
Individualism
Rebellion
Today
Outlet
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They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.
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Jagger
Anybody Else
Everybody Else
Iggy
Mick Jagger
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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.
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Artist
Inspiration
Nice
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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.
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Heart
Passion
Real
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I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.
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Queens
Boulevard
Insult
Good Me People
Good Mother Me
Corner
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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.
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Bored
Groups
Junk
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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 / Musician
Bridges
Country
Different Ideas
England
Ideas
Mtv
Wide
Bbc
Opened
Worse
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When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves.
Joey Ramone / Musician
Belts
Boots
Gloves
Pink
Platform
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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'.
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Blow
Hate
Song
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I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it.
Joey Ramone / Musician
Adventure
Blow
Thinking
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