Joey Ramone Quotes

• For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

  Joey Ramone

  Real, Passion, Heart

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• Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

  Joey Ramone

  Life, Play

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• Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

  Joey Ramone

  Adventure

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• What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

  Joey Ramone

  Real, School, Rocks

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• To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

  Joey Ramone

  Who I Am, Punk, Individual

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If your not in it you're out of it.

  Joey Ramone

  Ifs

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• Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

  Joey Ramone

  Skills, Style, Economy

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• I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

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  Being Happy, Ideas, Just Being

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• All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

  Joey Ramone

  Attitude, Punk

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• I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it.

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  Adventure, Blow, Thinking

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• Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can't get back.

  Joey Ramone

  Hair, Weight, Wells

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• I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.

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  Song, Hate, Blow

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• Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

  Joey Ramone

  Rocks, Special, Rock N Roll

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• When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

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  Growing Up, Kids, Frustration

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• To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

  Joey Ramone

  People, Emotion, Punk

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

  Joey Ramone

  Giving Up, Believe, Unique

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

  Joey Ramone

  Youth, Fountain, Ramones

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• We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

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  Bored, Junk, Groups

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• Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

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  Marriage, Years, Dying

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• I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

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  Fun, Mean, Rocks

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• The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

  Joey Ramone

  Eagles, Answers, Captains

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.

  Joey Ramone

  Nice, Inspiration, Artist

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• Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

  Joey Ramone

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

  Joey Ramone

  Wish, Band, Form

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• For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

  Joey Ramone

  Country, Bridges, Ideas

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