Quotes by Tommy Ramone - Page 1 | QuoteForever

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Groupies are just very enthusiastic fans, that's all.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Enthusiastic
Groupies
Copy Quote
Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Focus
Substance
Unnecessary
Copy Quote
There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Confirm
Round
Rumors
Copy Quote
'Rockaway Beach' is a great song, and so is 'Listen to My Heart.'
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Beach
Great Song
Copy Quote
When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Ego
People
Together
Copy Quote
We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Ramones
Fun Thing
Copy Quote
We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
People
Play
Song
Spare Time
Time People Short
Sets
Spare
Copy Quote
The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Inspiring
Instruments
Ramones
Master
Copy Quote
Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Bottom
Filled
Rhythm
Supplying
Copy Quote
One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Four
People
Unique
Copy Quote
Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Bowie
Stardust
Johnny
Influenced
Copy Quote
In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Electric
Electric Guitar
Folk Music
Music Myself Guitar
Folk
Copy Quote
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Boogie
Glitter
Oldies
Ramones
Blues
Copy Quote
We used to sit around and listen to the radio and not hear anything like the stuff we like, so we decided to play it ourselves.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Decided
Radio
Copy Quote
Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Athlete
First Love
Johnny
Copy Quote
The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Ramones
Rock And Roll
Brief
Copy Quote
Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
People
Rocks
Trophies
Copy Quote
When you're with a group of semi-psychotic people, you kind of lose track of reality; it's almost like being in some sort of cult or something.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Cult
Reality
Track
Almost
Reality Lose People
Group
Lose
Some
Copy Quote
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Guitar Solos
Seventies
Vocal
Egos
Geniuses
Harmonies
Solos
Our Music
Copy Quote
It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music - it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Missing
Ramones
Rock Music
Something New
Bringing
Copy Quote
In the early days, I was living with Dee Dee for a little while, and he was never around then, either. He would always be out. He was kind of an energetic guy who was always on the run.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Energetic
Early Days
Little While
Copy Quote
The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn't really listen to drummers; I basically played what I thought was needed for the Ramones.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Closest
Ramones
Al
Drummers
Jackson
Copy Quote
Dee Dee Ramone was the one who would go to Rockaway Beach, and he wrote that great song about it. He was the beach boy; he loved getting a tan and stuff, and he would ride the bus down Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Beach
Boulevard
Tan
Great Song
Ride
Copy Quote
Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels and didn't want to be noticed. I liked it because I thought it was ridiculous. The Ramones? That's absurd!
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Absurd
Ramones
Ridiculous
Checked
Liked
Hotels
Mccartney
Noticed
Paul
Paul Mccartney
Copy Quote
The Ramones were not about having a good time. The closest thing probably was maybe Joey and Dee Dee might have had some good times, but it was almost like a work ethic. We were out there to basically to get the fans to see the Ramones.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Closest
Good Times
Having A Good Time
Joey
Ramones
Work Ethic
Time Work Good
Closest Thing
Ethic
Work Time Good
Copy Quote
I've been a loner all my life, so it didn't bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like 'wolume control' instead of 'volume control.'
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Bother
Heavy
Junior High
Loner
Volume
Life Me My Life
Accent
All My Life
Hungarian
Junior
Junior High School
Copy Quote
The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Concepts
New Ideas
New Music
Ramones
Music World New
Breaking
Catch
Music Scene
Trail
Copy Quote
I was always into bluegrass as a kid. Basically, I like music that has a basic simple structure and that has a lot of emotion and feel. Bluegrass and other old time music fits the bill, as well as what became punk - they both kind of have a similar framework.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Bluegrass
Emotion
Framework
Structure
Time Music Always
Fits
Similar
Copy Quote
The drums were new to me; I was just playing what was in my head. I was a guitar player originally - so on the drums, I just played what was in my head rather than caring too much about what others were playing. And in that way, I came up with a simple but unique style.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Caring
Guitar Player
Too Much
Unique
Drums
Originally
Copy Quote
Even from the very beginning, the type of fans the Ramones generated were the kind of people who wound up running industry, who became professors and scientists. Our staunchest fans were always a little bit more on the outside, the type of people who didn't fit in with society.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Professors
Ramones
Scientists
Wound
Copy Quote
It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different. Originally it was just an artistic type of thing; finally I felt it was something that was good enough for everybody.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Ideas
Missing
Rocks
Copy Quote
It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun. It was probably fun when we played Performance Studio, and maybe some of the early gigs at CBGB's. But the Ramones were the type of group that had a bizarre mindset. Being in the band was so cut off from reality.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Bizarre
Gigs
Mindset
Ramones
Saddest
Saddest Thing
Copy Quote
I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Austria
Brother
Budapest
Moved
Revolution
Tanks
United States
Family Me Parents
Across
Border
Carry
Escaped
Hungarian
Perilous
Russian
Copy Quote
Most of the people who are given these Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. But for the Ramones, it really was a symbolic gesture of, 'Yes, you guys are special and are important to rock n' roll.' So in that sense, the Roll Hall of Fame served its purpose.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Ramones
Symbolic
Gesture
Hall
Served
Trophy
You Guys
Copy Quote
Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of the younger acts, there are The Freight Hoppers, who were big in the '90s, and The Foghorn Stringband from Oregon, and there's a lot of young string bands coming up now, basically punkers who play acoustic instruments forming new bands.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Americana
Bluegrass
Instruments
Old Time
Oregon
Acoustic
Acts
Forming
Freight
String
Copy Quote
The first record was basically a quick, fast record. The second record, we were going for more of a poppier sound - like a heavy pop sound. For 'Rocket to Russia,' we'd sort of reached our pinnacle. We'd gotten really good at what we were doing, so that's like my favorite record - that's a really good record. It's just great from beginning to end.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Heavy
Pinnacle
Russia
Good Record
Quick
Reached
Rocket
Copy Quote
Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is written in his own actual words, so the reader gets an insight into what made him the unique, charismatic and exciting individual that he was. It also gives a great view of The Ramones from Johnny's perspective.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Book
Unique
Views
Copy Quote

Related Record Producer Authors

Young Jeezy
Record Producer
Wednesday, Sep 28, 1977
Young Chop
Record Producer
Sunday, Nov 14, 1993
Warryn Campbell
Record Producer
Thursday, Aug 21, 1975
Walter Legge
Record Producer
Friday, Jun 01, 1906
Thursday, Mar 22, 1979
Vickie Winans
Record Producer
Sunday, Oct 18, 1953
Trife Diesel
Record Producer
Tony Visconti
Record Producer
Monday, Apr 24, 1944
Tommy Ramone
Record Producer
Tuesday, Jan 29, 1952
Friday, Jul 11, 2014
Tom Wilson
Record Producer
Wednesday, Mar 25, 1931
Wednesday, Sep 06, 1978
Tom Silverman
Record Producer
The-Dream
Record Producer
Tuesday, Sep 20, 1977
Ted Templeman
Record Producer
Tuesday, Oct 24, 1944
Suge Knight
Record Producer
Monday, Apr 19, 1965
Steve Lillywhite
Record Producer
Statik Selektah
Record Producer
Saturday, Jan 23, 1982

View All Record Producer Quotes

Top Authors

Ernest Hemingway
Author
Friday, Jul 21, 1899
Sunday, Jul 02, 1961
Thomas Aquinas
Priest
Tuesday, Jan 28, 1225
Wednesday, Mar 07, 1274
William Blake
Poet
Monday, Nov 28, 1757
Sunday, Aug 12, 1827
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Lucy Larcom
Poet
Friday, Mar 05, 1824
Monday, Apr 17, 1893
Stephen Covey
Author
Monday, Oct 24, 1932
Monday, Jul 16, 2012
Les Brown
Author
Saturday, Feb 17, 1945
Wayne Dyer
Author
Friday, May 10, 1940
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1921
Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Saturday, Jul 12, 1817
Tuesday, May 06, 1862
Pope John Paul Ii
Priest
Tuesday, May 18, 1920
Saturday, Apr 02, 2005
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
Thursday, Jan 08, 1942
Thomas Jefferson
3Rd US President
Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826
Tyler, The Creator
Rapper
Wednesday, Mar 06, 1991
John Muir
Author
Saturday, Apr 21, 1838
Thursday, Dec 24, 1914

View All Authors

Share This Page