Ramones Quotes

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

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.

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.

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.

The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there.

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.

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.