Dee Dee Ramone Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

But I'm nobody. What would I say?

Generally, I don't write with a lot of people anymore because it takes too much time.

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.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

I like it when Iggy Pop plays his old stuff, so I know how the fans feel. But it was my show, so I made the final decisions on what was played.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

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 try to be nice. Part of the privilege of being in a band is giving something back to the young people. If you can do anything for them, you should.

I used to have escape fantasies about leaving the music business, but I'm getting good support from the record company.

I was tired of touring, and a few years ago when I played in Sweden and Norway, I didn't seem very popular at the time.

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

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.

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

I hid myself in food.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.