Bridges Quote by Rachel Cohn

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

— Gavin McInnes

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

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

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

— Eddie Vedder

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

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

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

I think more people wanted to sound like the Ramones than The Velvet Underground. So many bands try to imitate us. Anywhere I go…

— Marky Ramone

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

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

Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name 'em, it's just how it's always been.

— Chad Gilbert

You gotta understand, the Ramones were greasers. We were Fonzie with longer hair. The greasers and gangs in Brooklyn all wore Chuck Taylors and…

— Marky Ramone