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Band I listen to most: The Ramones.
We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.
There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.
After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone
We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.
I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.
AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.
The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.
We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
I wanted to write a song called '#1234' that would act as a homage to The Ramones.
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly.
The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
I saw Blondie open for the Ramones, and I remember being really impressed by Debbie Harry and her awkwardness.
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.
Me and my two best friends went to see the Ramones in 1979, and two weeks later, I was like, 'We're starting a band. That's it.'
Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name 'em, it's just how it's always been.
The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single.
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.
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.
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.
People say I sound a lot like the Ramones and it's probably because I'm influenced by the same '60s groups, but I was never a strict Ramones fan.
The Ramones all hate each other, and they did it for decades. I wouldn't be able to do that. That would be like working at the bank or something.
I do not know what kind of relationship Jim Carroll and The Ramones had, though I imagine they all knew each other, as they ran in the same scene.
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
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.
Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it, the wool has been pulled over our eyes.
Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.
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.
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.
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
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 love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.