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 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
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
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
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
Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats. — Joey Ramone Copy Share
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
The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. — Joey Ramone Copy Share
One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.' — Joey Ramone Copy Share
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… — Joey Ramone Copy Share
