Dee Dee Ramone Quotes

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• I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
• Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right
• Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
• I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.
• I like California a lot more than New York these days.
• It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
• Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
• The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new…
• Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
• I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
• I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.
• When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay…
• I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
• I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.
• I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock.…
• It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
• I think it would be nice to be a prince.
• I used to be a hairdresser.
• I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they…
• I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I…

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