Tommy Ramone
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The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music,... TOMMY RAMONE Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of th... TOMMY RAMONE The Ramones were not about having a good time. The closest thing probably was maybe Joey and Dee Dee... TOMMY RAMONE I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian... TOMMY RAMONE In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ... TOMMY RAMONE Groupies are just very enthusiastic fans, that's all. TOMMY RAMONE The first record was basically a quick, fast record. The second record, we were going for more of a ... TOMMY RAMONE Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ra... TOMMY RAMONE Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmoni... TOMMY RAMONE The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Bec... TOMMY RAMONE The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, an... TOMMY RAMONE It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was ... TOMMY RAMONE Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a ... TOMMY RAMONE It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun.... TOMMY RAMONE When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best. JOEY RAMONE Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatur... MELODIE RAMONE Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks... JOHNNY RAMONE The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. JOEY RAMONE I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. JOHNNY RAMONE When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, reb... JOEY RAMONE I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, a... JOHNNY RAMONE To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying '... JOEY RAMONE As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim... JOHNNY RAMONE If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there... PHIL RAMONE Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood. JOEY RAMONE I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I s... JOHNNY RAMONE In our position, we've always done well, but we just haven't had that hit yet that put us over the t... JOEY RAMONE We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard, ... Everything was... JOEY RAMONE I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. JOEY RAMONE [Over the years, Florian accumulated quite a collection of rare RAMONES items, including posters, to... MARKY RAMONE That could be the first of many, ... Just because it's in Berlin, it doesn't mean there can't be one... MARKY RAMONE To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions ... JOEY RAMONE Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana o... JOEY RAMONE We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression. JOHNNY RAMONE If a man can judge success by how many great friends he has, then I have been very successful -- Joh... JOHNNY RAMONE As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they... JOHNNY RAMONE I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me... JOHNNY RAMONE I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me. JOHNNY RAMONE I like you. You're all right. Actually, I like you better meeting you than if somebody had just give... JOEY RAMONE I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the... JOEY RAMONE All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude. JOEY RAMONE I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to... MELODIE RAMONE I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first al... JOHNNY RAMONE Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their... MELODIE RAMONE As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE I learned very early on to try to never let your fans down. It is the fans that have given me a lot ... JOHNNY RAMONE It was a job, and I was just doing my job. JOHNNY RAMONE My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are! JOHNNY RAMONE Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spen... JOHNNY RAMONE 'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that poin... JOHNNY RAMONE We always stayed true to what the Ramones are. JOEY RAMONE There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us an... JOEY RAMONE The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. JOEY RAMONE The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. PHIL RAMONE The guy who started the museum in Berlin is a huge RAMONES fan, ... His name is Florian . In fact, e... MARKY RAMONE Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play. JOEY RAMONE Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate. PHIL RAMONE It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or ... MELODIE RAMONE That could be the first of many, ... Just because it's in Berlin, it doesn't mean there can't be one... MARKY RAMONE In the naivete of their youth, they believed Fate to be a kind mistress. None of them were prepared ... MELODIE RAMONE I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a ... DEE DEE RAMONE Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it. DEE DEE RAMONE When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, ... DEE DEE RAMONE I used to be a hairdresser. 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 th... 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 ne... DEE DEE RAMONE I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. ... DEE DEE RAMONE Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro... TOMMY DOUGLAS I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o... TOMMY DOUGLAS TOMMY SHAW In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground yo... TOMMY CALDWELL The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. TOMMY SMOTHERS TOMMY CHONG TOMMY LEE TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY LEE Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. TOMMY ARMOUR TOMMY LEE TOMMY LEE TOMMY COOPER TOMMY LEE TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY HENRICH TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY STEELE TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LEE When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished. TOMMY SMOTHERS TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY COOPER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY SHAW TOMMY CHONG TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY BOLT TOMMY CHONG Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I&#... TOMMY MOTTOLA TOMMY CHONG TOMMY COOPER TOMMY LEE TOMMY SHAW TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY COOPER TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's tru... TOMMY TRAN TOMMY CHONG TOMMY COOPER I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, e... TOMMY WISEAU TOMMY CHONG The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for... TOMMY CALDWELL Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you ... TOMMY CALDWELL I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had st... TOMMY CALDWELL TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY SHAW TOMMY LASORDA If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Co... TOMMY FRANKS TOMMY COOPER TOMMY COOPER TOMMY CHONG TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY CHONG TOMMY CHONG TOMMY LASORDA We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quick... TOMMY FRANKS TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY LASORDA I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a ... TOMMY DOUGLAS TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY CHONG TOMMY COOPER Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync o... TOMMY MOTTOLA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY COOPER Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing... TOMMY RETTIG TOMMY LEE There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and withi... TOMMY MOTTOLA Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. TOMMY DOUGLAS TOMMY LEE TOMMY LEE TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LEE TOMMY LASORDA We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. TOMMY TRAN TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LEE TOMMY HILFIGER We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've le... TOMMY FRANKS TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY CHONG TOMMY LEE TOMMY LEE TOMMY LEE The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. TOMMY SMOTHERS TOMMY SHAW
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