Band Quote by Marky Ramone

One of the reasons I joined the band was because I knew that Tommy had production experience and that he was going to produce…

— Marky Ramone

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

— Bob Geldof

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

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

— Rachel Cohn

If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to the [London…

— Motorhead

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

— Joe Cocker

You could say Iggy and the Stooges were garage. You could say the Kinks helped start heavy metal with that guitar sound Dave Davies…

— Marky Ramone

One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.'

— Joey Ramone

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone

The Hall Of Fame thing, it's an American thing. We don't have that in England or Germany or Australia or Russia or anywhere in…

— Ian Gillan

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name…

— Paul Stanley

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we were doing.…

— Charlotte Caffey