Words matter. These are the best Tommy Ramone Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
When you’re with a group of semi-psychotic people, you kind of lose track of reality; it’s almost like being in some sort of cult or something.
I’ve been a loner all my life, so it didn’t bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like ‘wolume control’ instead of ‘volume control.’
In the early days, I was living with Dee Dee for a little while, and he was never around then, either. He would always be out. He was kind of an energetic guy who was always on the run.
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.
It wasn’t just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.
The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn’t master their instruments.
Even from the very beginning, the type of fans the Ramones generated were the kind of people who wound up running industry, who became professors and scientists. Our staunchest fans were always a little bit more on the outside, the type of people who didn’t fit in with society.
Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.
In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.
There’s been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.
The drums were new to me; I was just playing what was in my head. I was a guitar player originally – so on the drums, I just played what was in my head rather than caring too much about what others were playing. And in that way, I came up with a simple but unique style.
Johnny was an athlete who didn’t play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn’t think he had it in him to be a professional.
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
Dee Dee Ramone was the one who would go to Rockaway Beach, and he wrote that great song about it. He was the beach boy; he loved getting a tan and stuff, and he would ride the bus down Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway.
Bowie’s ‘Hunky Dory’ influenced me. ‘Ziggy Stardust’ influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.
I was always into bluegrass as a kid. Basically, I like music that has a basic simple structure and that has a lot of emotion and feel. Bluegrass and other old time music fits the bill, as well as what became punk – they both kind of have a similar framework.
We play short songs and short sets for people who don’t have a lot of spare time.
