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

He checked in under the name Dee Dee Ramone and paid cash for his room. He — Stephen King

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

I am an old punk. — 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

DEE DEE RAMONE: Sid Vicious followed me all over the place ... the worst time was one night when we had a big party ... They were serving beer and wine, and everybody was bombed. The whole bathroom was filled with puke
in the sink, in the toilets, on the floor. It was really disgusting ... All of a sudden I had a huge amount of speed in my hand. I started sniffing it like crazy. I was so high. And then I saw Sid and he said, 'Do you have anything to get high?' I said, 'Yeah, I got some speed'. So Sid pulled out a set of works and put a whole bunch of speed in the syringe and then stuck the needle in the toilet with all the puke and piss in there and loaded it. He didn't cook it up. He just shook it, stuck it in his arm, and got off. I just looked at him. I'd seen it all by then. He just looked at me kind of dazed and said, 'Man, where did you get this stuff?'. — Legs McNeil

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

At the door I paused. 'So what was your spirit animal?'
'A dolphin. Fun in the sun, endless summer. What about you?'
'Dee Dee Ramone,' I said, and left. — Elizabeth Hand

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'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

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

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

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