Ramones Quotes

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.

— Mike Lowry

There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.

— Joey Ramone

I did five albums before I joined the Ramones.

— Marky Ramone

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

— Eddie Vedder

I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone

— Mike Dirnt

Ramones' songs are too good not to be played.

— Marky Ramone

Band I listen to most: The Ramones.

— Lisa Lutz

We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.

— Joey Ramone

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

— Ezra Koenig

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

— Perry Farrell

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

— Henry Rollins

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

— Jim Jarmusch

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

— Joey Ramone

I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.

— Lil Jon

One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.

— Tommy Ramone

The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band…

— Rick Nielsen

Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something…

— Rachel Cohn

People say I sound a lot like the Ramones and it's probably because I'm influenced by the same '60s groups, but I…

— Kim Shattuck

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play…

— Eddie Vedder

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the…

— Glenn Danzig

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big…

— Dexter Holland

I had been listening to Jackson Browne, The Eagles, and Linda Ronstadt. Ramones was not my kind of music. Now, I'm a…

— P. J. Soles

For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that…

— Johnny Ramone

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana…

— Gary Clark, Jr

The Ramones were a great bunch of guys. They were very quiet, very shy. They were a little in awe of the…

— P. J. Soles

We were lucky if we got two takes out of a scene in the Rock 'N' Roll High School. But the Ramones…

— P. J. Soles

I did not initially take to the music of the Ramones, because I had never really heard of them before. Allan Arkush…

— P. J. Soles

Four times a year, Warner Bros. Records send out their little statements, and they're like eight pages with all the countries from…

— P. J. Soles

I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that -…

— Bradford Cox

A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of…

— Kevin Shields

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music,…

— Bob Mould

We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured…

— Reed Mullin

I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]…

— Eddie Vedder

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

— Anonymous

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

— Rick Nielsen

A lot of bands think, 'We'll be original.' The Ramones did it because they couldn't do anything else.

— Marky Ramone

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

— Scott Ian

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

— Santiago Durango

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

— Johnny Ramone

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light…

— Johnny Ramone