Bass Quote by Chad Gilbert

I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly.

— Gavin McInnes

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like…

— Iggy Pop

Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't…

— Jeff Ament

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

— P. J. Soles

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

— Dexter Holland

Band I listen to most: The Ramones.

— Lisa Lutz

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

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the…

— Justin Sane

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

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn't play anything - he just sings and screams and jumps around; his body…

— James Paxton

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

— Eddie Vedder