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When Dee Dee would start sing...

When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

To me, punk is about being an...

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 40 quotes

Marriage is worse than dying....

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

Lack of skill dictates econom...

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

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For me, punk is about real fe...

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

We decided to start our own g...

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

I hate to blow the mystique, ...

I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

I've done a lot of living and...

I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

The Eagles and the Captain an...

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

I remember being turned on to...

I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

What they teach you in school...

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

For better or worse, MTV sort...

For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

Nobody picked up guns in thos...

Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.

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Forest Hills was a middle-cla...

Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.

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The first record I bought may...

The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'

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When I was a kid growing up i...

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Joey Ramone 40 quotes

To me, John Lennon and Elvis ...

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

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They asked me to sing - actua...

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

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When I was hitching, I'd be c...

When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves.

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One day I got a phone call, a...

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 40 quotes

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