Best Ramone Quotes & Sayings

When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it's generally the stuff that has to do with somebody not wanting to do things their way in the studio. — Phil Ramone

Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart. — Melodie Ramone

I never wore earplugs - that would have been cheating. — Johnny 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

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne. — Johnny Ramone

Basically, Sam Phillips recorded Bill Haley, Johnny Cash, and all those other Memphis guys; Chuck Berry played the top two strings; Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show above the waist; the Beatles made all the girls squirm by singing about wanting to hold their "hands"; Ray Davies got lost in a sunset; Pete Townshend smashed his guitar; Brian Wilson heard magic in his head and made it come out of a studio; the Rolling Stones urinated on a garage door; and then (skipping a bit) you've got Joey Levine and Chapman-Chinn and Mott the Hoople and Iggy and the Runaways and KISS and the Pink Fairies and Rick Nielsen and Jonathan Richman and Johnny Ramone and Lemmy and the Young brothers and Cook and Jones and Pete Shelley and Feargal Sharkey and Rob Halford ... and Foghat. You get what I'm saying. It didn't happen in a vacuum, but it did happen, and now here we are in the aftermath. — Frank Portman

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. — Johnny Ramone

The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves. — Johnny Ramone

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate. — Johnny Ramone

We were young. Love had a way of making us fearless because we knew that no matter what happened, if we fell on our face as we entered the ring or conquered the world in battle, in the end it would just be us, together. — Melodie Ramone

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross ... they are the best. — Giorgio Moroder

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 Ramones. — Johnny Ramone

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

If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast. — Phil Ramone

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. — Joey 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

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam. — Joey 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

'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point. — Johnny Ramone

Over time, I have realized that at 20, you can wear too much makeup and people assume you're a slut. Do it at 40 and they think you're a sea witch. — Melodie 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

I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime. — Johnny Ramone

Kid's little binges, his forays into intoxication were affecting everyone now. They were affecting their goals and dreams. They were affecting Natasha. She was probably drinking just to deal with him. — Melodie Ramone

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best. — Joey Ramone

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

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views. — Johnny 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

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 never sweat, which you might notice in pictures. — Johnny Ramone

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

No, I heard some of the staff talking. She's all bad, that one. They kicked her out of the Lollipop Guild for theft, yeah? And she did community service for bitch-slapping the Mayor of Munchkinland.
Alexander — Melodie Ramone

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play — Joey Ramone

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 on the stage. — Chris Cornell

Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. — Tommy Ramone

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing ... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. — Joey Ramone

Dear Natasha,
It's the middle of the night. I can't sleep. Thoughts are creeping through my head like darkness slips around the bodies of sky scrapers in every city we've ever been to. From the bottom up, suffocating the life on the street first and then raising to the head and the brain, circling into smog and clouds until the black stretches up so high that nobody can even remember what the stars used to look like.
This is how I feel when I lie awake and think of you. I miss you. — Melodie Ramone

It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information. — Phil Ramone

If your not in it you're out of it. — Joey Ramone

When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens. — Tommy Ramone

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