Quotes by Johnny Ramone - Page 1

You can't change music by yourself.
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I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.
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Careers
Fortunate
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As soon as you start analyzing something it stops
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I never sweat, which you might notice in pictures.
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Might
Sweat
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Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.
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Rock N Roll
Rocks
White
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I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.
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Cheating
Has Beens
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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
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Father
Hero
Two
Wayne
Heroes
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I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
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Lifetime
President
Thinking
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I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.
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Want
Way
Me Way Someone
React
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We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
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Impression
Left
Records
Sell
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I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
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Chuck
Jazz
Berry
Blues
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I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me.
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Honored
Me People Us
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A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.
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Kids
Guitar
Rocks
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People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
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People
Scared
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My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
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Artist
My Favorite
Redneck
Elvis
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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
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Berries
Chuck
Jazz
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I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.
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Get Better
Pain
Want
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That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.
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Found
Sound
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Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
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Records
Russia
Thinking
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Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
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Angry
Cancer
Made
Strong
Me Better Feel
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'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
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Ramones
Russia
Peak
Reached
Rocket
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Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.
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Matter
Mean
Wish
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I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
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Bully
Neighborhood
Way
Life My Life Control
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The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.
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Nervous
Play
Waiting
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My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
Johnny Ramone / Guitarist
Albums
Classic
Ramones
Russia
Song
Album
Rocket
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If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
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Friendship
Success
Men
Good Friend
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I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.
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Picture Taken
Taken
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Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?
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Europe
Horrible
Ice
Tvs
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I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
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Age
People
World
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Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
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Republican
Sticks
Too Much
Defending
Republicans
Stick
Too Much Time
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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.
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Light
Ramones
Want
Presented
Remaining
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As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.
Johnny Ramone / Guitarist
Perform
Gotten
Rid
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If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.
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Calling
Dying
Regret
Regrets
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I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.
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Needs
People
Retired
Want
Money Me People
Anymore
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I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
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Liberalism
Young Age
Dent
Drift
Figure
Toward
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I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.
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Grain
Realizing
Time Always Guitar
Basically
Time Guitar Always
Fast
Guitar Players
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As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
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Hollywood
Hollywood Films
Horror
Italian
Might
Bride
Frankenstein
Horror Films
Spanish
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You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.
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Drug
Milk
People
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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.
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Hippie
Rocks
Thinking
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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.
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Albums
Class
Years
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For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that image was anger. I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.
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Anger
Fury
Intensity
Ramones
Carried
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When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
Johnny Ramone / Guitarist
New York
Freeze
Limelight
People
Scared
Wife
Time Wife Look
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I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.
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Peak
Third
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Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.
Johnny Ramone / Guitarist
Blow
Crucial
Glowing
Light
Perception
Play
Tempo
Walks
Affects
Amp
Spot
Lights
Sets
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