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 Copy Share Image
The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
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… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
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. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
