Johnny Ramistella Quotes

• Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Evil, Mind, Faces

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• The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

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  Games, Balls, Internet

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• When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

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  Artist, California, Records

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• All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Summer, Lonely, Heart

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• That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

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  Baby, Guy, Rejection

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• If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.

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  Bars, Ifs

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• But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

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  Song, Great Lyric

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• I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

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  Thinking, Albums, Realization

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• My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

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  Guitar, Firsts

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• I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

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  Thinking, Cities, Soul

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• About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

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  Two, Months, Truck

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• I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

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  Night, Eight, Downtown

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• Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

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  People, Sick, Mud

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• I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

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  Bass, Used, Concerts

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• One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

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  Lines, Come Up, One Thing

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• The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

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  Firsts

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• I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

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  Eight, Gone, Months

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• I took care of myself. Basically I'm a vegetarian, I run every day, I exercise. I kind of control my living habits. I try to get a good night's sleep every night, I don't stay up all night and do all that stuff.

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  Good Night, Running, Sleep

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• I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.

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  New Orleans, Gigs, Jimmy

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• Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

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  Song, Writing, Redneck

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• What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

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  People, Smoking, Might

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