Ramones Quotes
44 Ramones quotes by 32 unique authors
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the…
— Iggy Pop
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Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols
— David Byrne
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I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.
— Perry Farrell
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It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music –…
— Tommy Ramone
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Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is written in his…
— Tommy Ramone
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I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone
— Mike Dirnt
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We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.
— Santiago Durango
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It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression…
— Bob Mould
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AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.
— Chuck Eddy
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One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.
— Tommy Ramone
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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
— Eddie Vedder
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Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the…
— Nikki Sixx
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I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
— Gerald Caiafa
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We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
— Gerald Caiafa
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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…
— Dee Dee Ramone
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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…
— Dee Dee Ramone
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My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
— Johnny Ramone
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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…
— Johnny Ramone
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Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
— Johnny Ramone
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Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
— Giorgio Moroder
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I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
— Scott Ian
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as…
— Gary Clark, Jr.
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I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
— Jim Jarmusch
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No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
— Ezra Koenig
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Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world…
— Chris Cornell
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