Dee Dee Ramone Quotes & Sayings

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again. — Dee Dee Ramone

I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don't want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don't know. — Dee Dee Ramone

I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain. — Dee Dee Ramone

It's very expensive to bring a band to New York. — Dee Dee Ramone

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car. — Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream. — Dee Dee Ramone

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next ... But it was always someone else instead of me. — Dee Dee Ramone

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow. — Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour. — Dee Dee Ramone

I like California a lot more than New York these days. — Dee Dee Ramone

We're playing at our level of ability. — Dee Dee Ramone

Ricky Nelson ... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star. — Dee Dee Ramone

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 material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs. — Dee Dee Ramone

I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me. — Dee Dee Ramone

We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue! — Dee Dee Ramone

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band. — Dee Dee Ramone

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats. — Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me. — Dee Dee Ramone

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 of my fellow Ramones. — Dee Dee Ramone

I used to be a hairdresser. — Dee Dee Ramone

It was sad when Sid Vicious died ... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy. — Dee Dee Ramone

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that. — Dee Dee Ramone

I think it would be nice to be a prince. — Dee Dee Ramone

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it. — Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right — Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them. — Dee Dee Ramone

I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me. — Dee Dee Ramone

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know. — Dee Dee Ramone

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back. — Dee Dee Ramone

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame. — Dee Dee Ramone

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol. — Dee Dee Ramone

I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell. — Dee Dee Ramone

Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being. — Dee Dee Ramone

I am an old punk. — Dee Dee Ramone

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well. — Dee Dee Ramone

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was. — Dee Dee Ramone

I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!" — Dee Dee Ramone

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across. — Dee Dee Ramone

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.' — Dee Dee Ramone

I haven't done rap ... I can't do that too well. — Dee Dee Ramone

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant. — Dee Dee Ramone

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness. — Dee Dee Ramone

Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song. — Dee Dee Ramone