Johnny Ramone Quotes

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• I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
• Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
• I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
• As soon as you start analyzing something it stops
• Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
• I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.
• Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
• I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
• I never sweat, which you might notice in pictures.
• If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
• Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.
• The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.
• I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.
• You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how…
• Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll…
• I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did,…
• My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
• Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?
• I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining…
• I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

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